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Heterosis in Tall and Dwarf Rice Varieties

Volume : 62
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 456 - 457
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Abstract


With a view to incorporate the yield potential and the quality attribute to a strain,seeds of two varieties of ice,namely ASD.1and Dee-Geo-Woo-Gen of the tall and dwarf indica groups respectivel y were obtained from the Paddy Breeding Station,Coimbatore and raised.Crossing was effected in kharif season of 1971 and F1 hybrids were raised along with the parents adopting a spacing of 60 cmx30 cm.Twelve hybrids were isolated.selfed and heterosis was studied for different metrical characters.

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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