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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2019

Simulation of heterosis in a genome-scale metabolic network provides mechanistic explanations for increased biomass production rates in hybrid plants.

Michael Vacher, Ian Small

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Heterosis Breeding in Eggplant (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Michael Vacher1Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009 Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0375-8370
Ian Small1Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009 Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5300-1216

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterosis, or hybrid vigour, is said to occur when F1 individuals exhibit increased performance for a number of traits compared to their parental lines. Improved traits can include increased size, better yield, faster development and a higher tolerance to pathogens or adverse conditions. The molecular basis for the phenomenon remains disputed, despite many decades of theorising and experimentation. In this study, we add a genetics layer to a constraint-based model of plant (

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ArabidopsisBiomassChimeraComputational BiologyComputer SimulationGenes, PlantHybridization, GeneticHybrid VigorMetabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, BiologicalPhenotypePlant BreedingQuantitative Trait LociComputer modellingSystems analysis

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PMID31341636
PMCPMC6639380

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