Lexicographical Neighbors of Testcrosses
Literary usage of Testcrosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hybrid Rice: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hybrid Rice : 6 by International Rice Research Institute (1989)
"A basic way to obtain restorers is to screen by making many testcrosses between
MS lines and other varieties, including native and new varieties. ..."
2. Hybrid Rice for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, and Environmental Protection by Sant S. Virmani, C. X. Mao, B. Hardy, International Rice Research Institute (2003)
"Use of these lines in numerous testcrosses resulted in a higher frequency ...
testcrosses (16%) at IRRI. Some heterotic two-line hybrids for the tropics are ..."
3. Two-line Hybrid Rice Breeding Manual by Sant S. Virmani (2003)
"To synchronize flowering and to make as many testcrosses between elite lines ...
Testcross nursery This nursery contains the testcrosses made in the source ..."
4. Rice Genetics: Proceedings of the International Rice Workshop at Lusaka by International Rice Research Institute (1986)
"The four models proposed can be distinguished from segregation patterns only in
appropriate backcrosses and testcrosses (7). Gamete eliminator and pollen ..."
5. Rice Farming Systems: New Directions : Proceedings of an International by International Rice Research Institute (1989)
"Screening existing better varieties or lines by making testcrosses with CMS lines
is a convenient way to obtain restorer lines for indica rice. ..."
6. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"An E-QTL can be detected as an M-QTL when alleles at the other locus with which
it interacts become fixed in the backcrosses or testcrosses. ..."