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Mating design

Mating design is a schematic cross between the groups or strains of plants are made in a plant breeding that is common in agriculture and biological science. The mating design in plant breeding has two main objectives: (1) to obtain information and understand the genetic control of a trait or behavior that is observed, and (2) to get the base population for the development of plant cultivars. Analysis of variance in offspring plants results from a mating design was used to evaluate the effects of additive genetic, dominant level, epistasis and heritability value equal to the value of genetic expectations.

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Mating design is a schematic cross between the groups or strains of plants are made in a plant breeding that is common in agriculture and biological science.1 The mating design in plant breeding has two main objectives: (1) to obtain information and understand the genetic control of a trait or behavior that is observed, and (2) to get the base population for the development of plant cultivars.1 Analysis of variance in offspring plants results from a mating design was used to evaluate the effects of additive genetic, dominant level, epistasis and heritability value equal to the value of genetic expectations.2

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  1. George Acquaah (2007). Principle of Plant Genetics and Breeding. United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing. p. 141. ISBN 9781405136464.
  2. Hallauer; et al. (2010). Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LCC. pp. 34, 86, 104, 119, 134. ISBN 9781441907660.