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Two experiments, each including the same 30 homozygous varieties of spring wheat plus one separate tester variety, were conducted in order to detect epistasis and to test and estimate the additive and dominance components of genetic variation for five quantitative traits: final plant height, spike length, number of spikelets per spike, 100-kernel weight and grain yield per plant. Epistasis played a significant role in the control of 100-kernel weight and yield per plant. There was a gratifyingly good agreement between the two independent methods (2¯B1i — ¯f1i — ¯Pi and 2¯Bci — ¯F1i) used to test the presence of epistasis. In both experiments, there was a remarkably uniform high dominance ratio for most of the traits studied indicating that this test cross design is equally sensitive to both additive and dominance genetic variation.
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Communicated by A. Robertson, W.J. Libby, P. Spiegel-Roy
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Singh, S. Single tester triple test cross analysis in spring wheat. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 59, 247–249 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265504
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265504