Heterosis

Recent review papers:

Chen, J 2013. Genomic and epigenetic insights into the molecular bases of heterosis. Nature Review Genetics 14:471–482.

Schnable PS and NM Springer 2013. Progress toward understanding heterosis in crop plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology 64:71-88.

Kaeppler S. 2012. Heterosis: many genes, many mechanisms—end the search for an undiscovered unifying theory. ISRN Botany 2012:682824.

Goff, SA. 2011. A unifying theory for general multigenic heterosis: energy efficiency, protein metabolism, and implications for molecular breeding. New Phytologist, 189:923–937.

Birchler, JA, H Yao, S Chudalayandi, D Vaiman, and RA Veitia. 2010. Heterosis. Plant Cell, 22:2105–2112.

Goff, SA and Q Zhang. 2013. Heterosis in elite hybrid rice: speculation on the genetic and biochemical mechanisms. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 16:221-227