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Hybrid vigor in muskmelon crosses
Publication Information
California Agriculture 26(2):12-14.
Published February 01, 1972
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Abstract
Hybrid vigor is evident in crosses between two parents when the hybrid offspring exceed either parent, or the average of the two parents, in expression of a character. Hybrid vigor is important in many economic plants, and has been previously reported for earliness and certain fruit characters in muskmelon.