Rapeseed as a model to analyse `fixed heterosis` in allopolyploid plants

Applicant Professor Dr. Heiko Becker

Subject Area Plant Breeding and Plant Pathology

Term from 2003 to 2010

Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5403783

Final Report Year 2010

Final Report Abstract

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(2005) Development of synthetic Brassica napus lines for the analysis of „fixed heterosis” in allopolyploid plants. Euphytica 142:119-129
Abel S, Möllers C, Becker HC
(2007) The effect of autopolyploidy on biomass production in homozygous lines of Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Plant Breeding 126:642- 643
Abel S, Becker HC
(2008) Genetic analysis of heterosis for yield and yield components in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) by quantitative trait locus mapping. Genetics 179:1547-1558
Radoev M, Becker HC, Ecke W
(2010) Comparative mapping of quantitative trait loci involved in heterosis for seedling and yield traits in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). Theor Appl Genet 120:271-281
Basunanda P, Radoev M, Ecke W, Friedt W, Becker HC, Snowdon RJ