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Classifying Maize Inbred Lines into Heterotic Groups using a Factorial Mating Design

^a Institute of Food Crops, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650205, Yunnan Province, China
^b Research Analyst, John Deere Co., Milan, IL 61264
^c Vice Chancellor, Punjab Agricultural Univ., Ludhiana 141 004, India

View larger version (34K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Heterotic group specific and general combining ability between 23 lines and four testers with known heterotic groups. TSPT = Tangsipingtou; LDRC = Luda Red Cob. With (a) tester Dan340; (b) tester Mo17; (c) tester HZ4; (d) tester Ye478.

View larger version (26K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Dendrogram of 27 maize inbred lines based on genetic similarity values using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The dotted line represents genetic similarity (GS) = 0.7140, four testers can be separated by the line, and all the inbred lines were divided into five genetic similarity groups.