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Published online 1 January 1958
Published in Agron J 50:45-48 (1958)
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Effect of Visual Selection During Inbreeding Upon Combining Ability in Corn1

R. D. Osler, E. J. Wellhausen and Gilberto Palacios2

Synopsis: Visual selection during successive generations of inbreeding in corn resulted in significant improvement in yield, ear appearance and plant appearance by 57%, 60% and 41%, respectively, of the 134 specific hybrid combinations. The visual selection for yield and ear appearance was more effective in introduced than in local, well-adapted lines. For plant appaarance the visual selection was more eftective in local, well-adapted lines.

1 Paper No. 56 of the Agricultural Journal Series of The Rockefeller Foundation.

2 Geneticist, Local Director, and Local Staff Member, respectively, with the Mexican Agricultural Program of The Rockefeller Foundation.

Received for publication May 9, 1957.




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