Heterosis and hybrid breeding

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Av Pádua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, SP, CEP 13418-900, Brazil. augusto.garcia@usp.br.
² Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding II, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392, Giessen, Germany.
³ Vegetables Crop Research Unit, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
⁴ Centre for Crop and Food Innovation, WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia.
⁵ Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
⁶ Cotton Fiber Bioscience and Utilization Research Unit, USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, LA, 70124, USA.

Editorial

Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia et al. Theor Appl Genet. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 11;138(4):69.

doi: 10.1007/s00122-025-04834-x.

¹ Department of Genetics, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Av Pádua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, SP, CEP 13418-900, Brazil. augusto.garcia@usp.br.
² Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding II, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392, Giessen, Germany.
³ Vegetables Crop Research Unit, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
⁴ Centre for Crop and Food Innovation, WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia.
⁵ Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
⁶ Cotton Fiber Bioscience and Utilization Research Unit, USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, LA, 70124, USA.

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