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The contribution of genotype-environmental effects to the formation of qualitative traits of inbred and outbred plants

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Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research

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An assumption about the epigenetic nature of genotype-environment interaction is made and proven. When genetic variances in descendants of various ages are analyzed, this interaction manifests itself as epistasis. Study of inbred (common spring wheat) and outbred (hybrid maize) forms shows that their contribution of genotype-environmental factors to quantitative traits in hybrids is less than in homozygous forms. With regard to the substantially epigenetic nature of the genotype-environmental interaction, this trend can be explained in terms of the epigenetic balance hypothesis.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Syukov, E.V. Madyakin, D.V. Kochetkov, 2010, published in Informatsionnyi Vestnik Vavilovskogo Obshchestva Genetikov i Selektsionerov, 2010, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 141–147.

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Syukov, V.V., Madyakin, E.V. & Kochetkov, D.V. The contribution of genotype-environmental effects to the formation of qualitative traits of inbred and outbred plants. Russ J Genet Appl Res 1, 33–37 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059711010102

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