• It reintroduces a genetic variety creating what geneticists refer to as heterosis or hybrid vigour. (jayesdoodles.com)
  • So, what's hybrid vigor (heterosis)? (pictures-of-cats.org)
  • Hybrid vigor, also known as heterosis, is the miraculous phenomenon by which intercrossing two varieties of plants produces more vigorous hybrid offspring with higher yields. (eurekalert.org)
  • Another theory for heterosis, supported by our discovery, postulates that improved vigor stems from only a single gene - an effect called "superdominance" or "overdominance. (eurekalert.org)
  • Although the term 'hybrid vigour', or 'heterosis', is usually used in relation to hybrids between two inbred lines it's presumably more widely applicable than just then. (blogspot.com)
  • Heterozygosity implies heterosis, and so some level of hybrid vigour. (blogspot.com)
  • describe molecular engineering of an elegant male sterility - fertility restoration system for the exploration of heterosis (hybrid vigour) in wheat. (usda.gov)
  • The term for such amazingness is hybrid vigor or heterosis . (southernfriedscience.com)
  • For the combination of polyploidy and heterosis, we have generated triploid hybrids (THs) of energy willow by crossing autotetraploid willow plants with leading cultivars (Tordis and Inger). (bvsalud.org)
  • In agreement with root growth characteristics in soil, the TH3/12 hybrids showed considerable heterosis (MPH: 70.08%) under in vitro conditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • During that time we have seen increased weaning weights and overall animal performance as a result of the hybrid vigor provided by their genetics. (rivercreekfarms.com)
  • Hybrid vigor, like all laws of genetics, applies to humans as well as animals. (stormfront.org)
  • First generation hybrids are unlikely to get any 'bad' genes at all. (stormfront.org)
  • The team made the discovery while hunting for genes that boost hybrid vigor, a revolutionary breeding principle that spurred the production of blockbuster hybrid crops like corn and rice a century ago. (eurekalert.org)
  • Perhaps a case of hybrid vigor as MP Arabians and MP Neandertals mixed their genes and hit a kind of evolutionary jackpot. (blogspot.com)
  • Cantidad relativa por la que disminuye la aptitud física relativa de una POBLACIÓN, debido a la presencia de GENES que disminuyen la supervivencia, en comparación con el GENOTIPO con una aptitud física máxima u óptima (Rieger et al. (bvsalud.org)
  • Soaking seeds in range of appropriate concentrations of DPC enhanced root vigour effectively, promoted root development and raised root/shoot ratio under salt stress. (youdao.com)
  • The impact of hybrid vigor on the concentrations of plant hormones in these TH genotypes reflected essentially different hormonal statuses that depended preferentially on maternal parents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hybrids are often stronger, healthier and more fertile than their "purebred" - more genetically related - parents. (aqha.com)
  • Hybrid Vigour is a proven outcome of a healthier, more fertile, and mentally stable offspring. (jayesdoodles.com)
  • F1 Goldendoodle dogs tend to be popular because they carry the hybrid vigor trait, which means that they are generally healthier than purebred dogs. (mypetneedsthat.com)
  • A set of 779 doubled haploid lines were evaluated for flowering time and plant height in 2 field replicates in 2016 and 2017, and a subset of 689 and 561 doubled haploid lines were crossed to 2 testers, respectively, and evaluated as hybrids in 2 locations in 2018 and 2019 using an incomplete block design. (nih.gov)
  • In the case of hybrid corn, farmers have taken traditional American maize that has traits to survive well in the fertile plains with varieties that produce consistent, sugary kernels fit for mechanization. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. - Giving tomato breeders and ketchup fans something to cheer about, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientist and his colleagues at the Hebrew University in Israel have identified a gene that pushes hybrid tomato plants to spectacularly increase yield. (eurekalert.org)
  • In order to make consistent amazing corn, breeders have to create the hybrid each year for purchase by farmers who cover 95% of our corn cropland with the hybrids each year ( this history is one of agricultural legend). (southernfriedscience.com)
  • The increase in hybrid vigor is seen in several tomato varieties and across several environmental conditions. (eurekalert.org)
  • HYBRID VIGOR Often, when two inbred varieties of corn are crossed, the hybrid (shown center) is more robust and yields more than either parent (shown left and right). (sciencenews.org)
  • This is also how particular hybrid varieties of fruit are maintained - male branch of one variety grafted onto the female of a different is a sure way to consistently produce an especially tasty variety of apple, orange, or the more inventive pluot. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Selection for vigor in multiple environments in North America resulted in experimental populations of meadow bromegrass with superior forage yield compared with ' Fleet ' on marginal crop land in the northern Great Plains. (scirp.org)
  • image: Hybrid offspring that have one functional and one defective copy of the SFT gene showed up to 60 percent increases in fruit yield as compared to their parents. (eurekalert.org)
  • Selecting a diverse set of mutant plants, most of which produced low yield, the team crossed each mutant with its normal counterpart and searched for hybrids with improved yield. (eurekalert.org)
  • A mutation in only one copy of the florigen gene causes the hybrid to produce more flowers in less time - the key to improved yield. (eurekalert.org)
  • In addition to superior yield, the hybrids also display another, perhaps equally important quality - taste. (eurekalert.org)
  • And surprising differences between two strains of corn may provide clues about why hybrids sometimes grow or yield better than parent strains. (sciencenews.org)
  • Hybrid corn might not be the most fun example, but it serves as a politically charged one. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • The solution to mechanizing a corn field (therefore providing cheap food for the masses, in theory) has been to produce a hybrid each year with some incredible capabilities like growing two inches apart from its neighbors and producing absolutely identical, easy to harvest ears. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Some scholars say that investigation of hybrids is the only way to understand the complicated relation between binaries such as nature and society - an understanding necessary for goals such as conservation. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Overall, this finding is consistent with the overlapping and nonoverlapping significant quantitative trait loci found within the per se and hybrid populations and suggests that selections for phenology traits can be made effectively on doubled haploid lines before hybrid data is available. (nih.gov)
  • Hybrid vigor is just what it sounds like: It's the vitality animals (or plants) gain by being crossbred. (aqha.com)
  • 4 reports 'Geneticist Aarathi Prasad considers the theory that mixed-race humans are blessed with innate advantages, something farmers recognise in plants and animals as hybrid vigour. (worldstarhiphop.com)
  • Efforts specific to domesticated and wild species, and to hybrids of these species, are discussed below. (nzdl.org)
  • Hybrids between these livestock-only Schistosoma species have also been reported in cattle and sheep but not in other hosts ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Tomato 'Tomande' boasts of heirloom flavor combined with hybrid vigor. (purdue.edu)
  • Our results indicate that breeding with hybrid mutations could prove to be a powerful new way to increase yields, not only in tomato, but all crops. (eurekalert.org)
  • To produce triploid hybrid genotypes, we crossed two female diploid Swedish cultivars (Inger, Tordis) with two male autotetraploid willow (Salix viminalis) variants (PP-E7, PP-E15). (bvsalud.org)
  • Hybrid Vigor is the second album by the American musician Webb Wilder, released in 1989. (wikipedia.org)
  • The interspecific hybrid expresses characteristics of both parents and has shown potential for hay during spring and for pasture during the summer and autumn [2] [6]. (scirp.org)
  • As a result, first generation hybrids can sometimes seem to inherit all of the good, and none of the bad, from both parents. (stormfront.org)
  • Flowering time and plant height are critical characteristics for both inbred parents and their test crossed hybrid progeny. (nih.gov)
  • The molecular data suggest that these hybrids were not first generation, but a result of parental and/or hybrid backcrosses. (cdc.gov)
  • Hybrid vigor and polyploidy are genetic events widely utilized to increase the productivity of crops. (bvsalud.org)
  • OryCon36: Hybrid Vigor: Choosing Both Traditional. (sched.com)
  • Hybrid Vigor is a apt title for a CD that's a mix of Celtic songs (including some reels and traditional tunes), original pop, and Cajun songs. (ectoguide.org)
  • In the future, this system could facilitate introduction of hybrid seeds on a large scale. (usda.gov)
  • N-UNCOUNT Vigour is physical or mental energy and enthusiasm. (youdao.com)
  • Altogether, these insights into controlling factors of above-ground growth parameters of willow genotypes support the utilization of triploid hybrid vigor in willow breeding to expand the cultivation of short rotation energy trees for renewable energy production. (bvsalud.org)
  • You can purchase one of her solo CDs (the most recent, Take Some Fire is arguably not only Beth Patterson's best, but one of the best pop, Celtic or hybrid CDs of the year). (ectoguide.org)
  • Some of the songs on Hybrid Vigor are purely instrumental, where Patterson's incredible bouzouki playing is the star of the show. (ectoguide.org)
  • Shull's studies suggested that harmful, vigor-killing gene mutations that accumulate naturally in every generation are exposed by inbreeding, but hidden by crossbreeding. (eurekalert.org)
  • This hybrid, the team found, produced greater yields because there was one normal copy and one mutated copy of a single gene that produces a protein called florigen. (eurekalert.org)
  • Thirteen populations (7 meadow bromegrass, 5 hybrid bromegrass, and 1 smooth bromegrass) were evaluated for 4 yrs (2005-2007, 2009) at Brookings, SD. (scirp.org)
  • Hybrid vigour brings better germination, fast spring growth, and excellent disease resistance. (westcoastseeds.com)
  • Our objectives were to 1) evaluate meadow, smooth, and hybrid bromegrasses for forage production under intensive management in eastern South Dakota, and 2) evaluate the effect of selection for vigor in multiple environments on forage production of meadow bromegrass. (scirp.org)
  • There are arguments that the higher filial wild cat hybrids are too wild and inherently too hard to handle for most. (pictures-of-cats.org)
  • F6 wild cat hybrids are treated like conventional domestic cats under the law in all countries except Australia and New Zealand where I don't think there are any as they are banned. (pictures-of-cats.org)
  • Genetic hybrids can be wild and wonderful as well. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Given that bioenergy usage needs to be expanded, we investigated triploid hybrid vigor in terms of the biology of biomass-related willow traits and their relevance to the control of biomethane production. (bvsalud.org)
  • Genetic mapping utilizing an update to R/qtl2 revealed differing profiles of significant loci for both traits between 635 of the DH lines and 2 sets of 570 and 471 derived hybrids. (nih.gov)
  • Predictive abilities were highest on direct models trained using the data they would predict (0.55-0.63), and indirect models trained using per se data to predict hybrid traits had slightly lower predictive abilities (0.49-0.55). (nih.gov)
  • This hybrid series of trailing vinca brings more to the grower's bench than the standard open pollinated types. (harrisseeds.com)
  • The concern about hybrid vigor - or lack thereof - is that as you line breed or highly inbreed a group of horses, you can increase the chance that they are going to be homozygous for genetic defects ," she explains. (aqha.com)
  • Such mixing could increase the potential for novel zoonotic hybrid parasites to emerge and become established ( 3 , 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In summary, your children may experience hybrid vigor, but your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will progressively degenerate. (stormfront.org)
  • In western Africa, hybrids, predominantly between S. haematobium (human schistosome) and S. bovis or S. curassoni (livestock schistosomes), have been isolated from children and snails ( 5 , 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • After 6 yrs, meadow bromegrass had higher tiller density and greater potential for tolerating multiple harvests during a growing season than did smooth or hybrid bromegrass. (scirp.org)
  • But there is no reason why higher education cannot pursue outside funding with greater vigour . (youdao.com)
  • Hybrid vigor translates to large flowers and thick glossy foliage. (harrisseeds.com)
  • The Edmonton Journal called Hybrid Vigor "snappy, off-the-wall, way cool hard rock written by people who know the definition of irony but also know when to lay off and simply turn the volume up. (wikipedia.org)
  • As time goes on and they interbreed with either pure racial stock or other hybrids, they are now liable to the genetic deficiencies of both races. (stormfront.org)
  • Moving up in scale, the chimera is a type of hybrid in which tissue from two different genetic stock is combined. (southernfriedscience.com)
  • Multilocus analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA regions ( 6 ) on all 42 larvae collected from the child identified 2 individual miracidia with a livestock S. bovis × S. curassoni hybrid profile with no genetic signal from human-specific S. haematobium . (cdc.gov)
  • If I could think of somebody else who can create and sing hybrid Celtic-Cajun songs, I might be able to find an apt comparison. (ectoguide.org)
  • Biomass at anthesis was greater for smooth (6.75 Mg ha -1 ) than for meadow or hybrid brome (5.4 Mg ha -1 ) in 2005, but production at anthesis during 2006 and 2007 was similar for meadow and smooth bromegrass. (scirp.org)
  • Smooth and hybrid bromegrasses had more leaves·tiller -1 than meadow bromegrass. (scirp.org)
  • Regrowth harvested during July and October 2005 and November 2006 was greater for meadow than smooth or hybrid bromegrass. (scirp.org)