Challenges and developments in hybrid breeding of barley

Challenges and developments in hybrid breeding of barleyOver a long period of more than a century, breeding and improvements in cropping systems have led to a constant increase in grain yield in barley. Due to its autogamous propagation, commercial barley varieties are normally true inbred lines or doubled haploid lines normally having completely homozygous genomes. Hybrid breeding in autogamous cereals such as barley, however, is still in its infancy. This chapter describes the principles of heterosis in

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