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Breeding for outcrossing ability in rice, to enhance seed production for hybrid rice cropping

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Taillebois J., Dosmann J., Cronemberger H., Paredes H., Cao T.V., Neves P.D.C., Ahmadi N.
2017

Background: Adoption of the hybrid rice varieties by farmers is often impaired by the high price of hybrid seed, due to low yields in hybrid seed production fields. Female outcrossing ability (FOA) and female hybrid seed production ability (FHSPA), defined as the rate of filled spikelets of the male sterile (MS) line and as its grain yield under outcrossing, respectively, determine plant traits ...

Génétique et amélioration des plantes; Physiologie végétale : reproduction; Production et traitement des semences

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