{"id":686302,"date":"2021-04-06T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686302"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:08:14","slug":"gained-in-translation-subgenome-fractionation-determines-hybrid-vigor-in-maize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686302","title":{"rendered":"Gained in translation: Subgenome fractionation determines hybrid vigor in maize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The adage goes, &#8220;Two is better than one.&#8221; Well, that might be true for endeavors involving human heads, but when it comes to ears, hybrid maize tends to have a superior advantage over the parental stocks in most cases. This phenomenon, called hybrid vigor or &#8220;heterosis,&#8221; has been used by agriculturalists across ages to create higher-yielding, more resistant varieties of maize all over the world.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-gained-subgenome-fractionation-hybrid-vigor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gained in translation: Subgenome fractionation determines hybrid vigor in maize<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adage goes, &#8220;Two is better than one.&#8221; Well, that might be true for endeavors involving human heads, but when it comes to ears, hybrid maize tends to have a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}