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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2018

Parental Expression Variation of Small RNAs Is Negatively Correlated with Grain Yield Heterosis in a Maize Breeding Population.

Felix Seifert, Alexander Thiemann, Robert Grant-Downton, Susanne Edelmann, Dominika Rybka, Tobias A Schrag, Matthias Frisch, Hugh G Dickinson, Albrecht E Melchinger, Stefan Scholten

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Felix SeifertBiocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Alexander ThiemannBiocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Robert Grant-DowntonDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Susanne EdelmannBiocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Dominika RybkaBiocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Tobias A SchragInstitute for Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
Matthias FrischInstitute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding II, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.
Hugh G DickinsonDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Albrecht E MelchingerInstitute for Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
Stefan ScholtenBiocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Universität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Hohenheim · DEUniversity of Oxford · GBUniversity of Giessen · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterosis refers to a quantitative phenomenon in which F1 hybrid trait values exceed the mean of the parental values in a positive direction. Generally, it is dependent on a high degree of heterozygosity, which is maintained in hybrid breeding by developing parental lines in separate, genetically distinct heterotic groups. The mobility of small RNAs (sRNAs) that mediate epigenetic regulation of gene expression renders them promising candidates for modulating the action of combined diverse genomes in

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genome evolutionheterosisheterotic groupshybrid breedingnon-coding RNAs

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PMID29441076
PMCPMC5797689
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