Abstract
Synopsis Irradiation of seeds of Adams and Hawkeye soybeans with X‐rays and thermal neutrons significantly increased the genetic variability for yield, plant height, maturity, and seed size. The estimates of genetic variance in the irradiation treatments averaged five times as large as those in the controls, and the predicted genetic gains from selection indicated that an advance could be made within each population for all characters except plant height.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Seed irradiation increased genetic variability for yield, height, maturity and seed size.
- Taxon
- soybeans
Glycine maxe0 - Material
- Adams and Hawkeyee0
- Treatment
- X‐rays and thermal neutronse0
- Outcome
- genetic variability for yield, plant height, maturity, and seed sizee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Irradiation of seeds of Adams and Hawkeye soybeans with X‐rays and thermal neutrons significantly increased the genetic variability for yield, plant height, maturity, and seed size”
Claim · model-written summary
Genetic variance in irradiated populations averaged five times the controls.
- Taxon
- SoybeansGlycine maxt0
- Treatment
- irradiation treatmentse0
- Outcome
- genetic variancee0
- Direction
- five times as largee0
- Comparator
- controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The estimates of genetic variance in the irradiation treatments averaged five times as large as those in the controls”
t0“Soybeans”
Claim · model-written summary
Predicted selection gains indicated advances for all characters except plant height.
- Taxon
- SoybeansGlycine maxt0
- Outcome
- genetic gains from selectione0
- Direction
- an advancee0
- Qualifier
- except plant heighte0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the predicted genetic gains from selection indicated that an advance could be made within each population for all characters except plant height”
t0“Soybeans”
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