201-203
Editorial
The International Conference on “Heterosis in Plants”
Albrecht E. Melchinger
205-214
Original Paper
Open AccessDNA methylation in diploid inbred lines of potatoes and its possible role in the regulation of heterosis
Sunao Nakamura and Kazuyoshi Hosaka
215-226
Original Paper
Intraspecific hybrids of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed no gross alterations in endopolyploidy, DNA methylation, histone modifications and transcript levels
Ali Mohammad Banaei Moghaddam, Jörg Fuchs, Tobias Czauderna, Andreas Houben and Michael Florian Mette
227-237
Original Paper
Open AccessQTL analysis of early stage heterosis for biomass in Arabidopsis
Rhonda Christiane Meyer, Barbara Kusterer, Jan Lisec, Matthias Steinfath and Martina Becher, et al.
239-247
Original Paper
Open AccessPrediction of hybrid biomass in Arabidopsis thaliana by selected parental SNP and metabolic markers
Matthias Steinfath, Tanja Gärtner, Jan Lisec, Rhonda C. Meyer and Thomas Altmann, et al.
249-259
Original Paper
Enriched partial correlations in genome-wide gene expression profiles of hybrids (A. thaliana): a systems biological approach towards the molecular basis of heterosis
Sandra Andorf, Joachim Selbig, Thomas Altmann, Kathrin Poos and Hanna Witucka-Wall, et al.
261-270
Original Paper
Open AccessQuantitative genetic analysis of embryo heterosis in faba bean (Vicia faba L.)
S. Dieckmann and Wolfgang Link
271-281
Original Paper
Open AccessComparative mapping of quantitative trait loci involved in heterosis for seedling and yield traits in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)
P. Basunanda, M. Radoev, W. Ecke, W. Friedt and H. C. Becker, et al.
283-290
Original Paper
Broadening the avenue of intersubgenomic heterosis in oilseed Brassica
Jun Zou, Jiali Zhu, Shunmou Huang, Entang Tian and Yong Xiao, et al.
291-299
Original Paper
Molecular marker assisted broadening of the Central European heterotic groups in rye with Eastern European germplasm
Sandra Fischer, A. E. Melchinger, V. Korzun, P. Wilde and B. Schmiedchen, et al.
301-310
Original Paper
Broadening the genetic base of European maize heterotic pools with US Cornbelt germplasm using field and molecular marker data
Jochen C. Reif, Sandra Fischer, Tobias A. Schrag, Kendall R. Lamkey and Dietrich Klein, et al.
311-319
Original Paper
Variation of the parental genome contribution in segregating populations derived from biparental crosses and its relationship with heterosis of their Design III progenies
Albrecht E. Melchinger, Baldev S. Dhillon and Xuefei Mi
321-332
Original Paper
High congruency of QTL positions for heterosis of grain yield in three crosses of maize
Chris C. Schön, Baldev S. Dhillon, H. Friedrich Utz and Albrecht E. Melchinger
333-340
Original Paper
Dissection of the genetic basis of heterosis in an elite maize hybrid by QTL mapping in an immortalized F2 population
Jihua Tang, Jianbing Yan, Xiqing Ma, Wentao Teng and Weiren Wu, et al.
341-353
Original Paper
Gene expression analysis at the intersection of ploidy and hybridity in maize
Nicole C. Riddle, Hongmei Jiang, Lingling An, R. W. Doerge and James A. Birchler
355-367
Original Paper
Allelic genome structural variations in maize detected by array comparative genome hybridization
André Beló, Mary K. Beatty, David Hondred, Kevin A. Fengler and Bailin Li, et al.
369-381
Original Paper
Heterotic patterns of sugar and amino acid components in developing maize kernels
Lilla Römisch-Margl, Gertraud Spielbauer, Andre Schützenmeister, Wilfried Schwab and Hans-Peter Piepho, et al.
383-388
Original Paper
Molecular dissection of heterosis manifestation during early maize root development
Anja Paschold, Caroline Marcon, Nadine Hoecker and Frank Hochholdinger
389-400
Original Paper
Heterosis in early seed development: a comparative study of F1 embryo and endosperm tissues 6 days after fertilization
Stephanie Jahnke, Barbara Sarholz, Alexander Thiemann, Vera Kühr and José F. Gutiérrez-Marcos, et al.
401-413
Original Paper
Correlation between parental transcriptome and field data for the characterization of heterosis in Zea mays L.
Alexander Thiemann, Junjie Fu, Tobias A. Schrag, Albrecht E. Melchinger and Matthias Frisch, et al.
415-427
Original Paper
Prediction of maize single-cross hybrid performance: support vector machine regression versus best linear prediction
Steven Maenhout, Bernard De Baets and Geert Haesaert
429-440
Original Paper
Open AccessMixed model approaches for the identification of QTLs within a maize hybrid breeding program
Fred A. van Eeuwijk, Martin Boer, L. Radu Totir, Marco Bink and Deanne Wright, et al.
441-450
Original Paper
Transcriptome-based distance measures for grouping of germplasm and prediction of hybrid performance in maize
Matthias Frisch, Alexander Thiemann, Junjie Fu, Tobias A. Schrag and Stefan Scholten, et al.
451-461
Original Paper
Prediction of hybrid performance in maize using molecular markers and joint analyses of hybrids and parental inbreds
Tobias A. Schrag, Jens Möhring, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Barbara Kusterer and Baldev S. Dhillon, et al.
463-473
Original Paper
Open AccessSystemic properties of metabolic networks lead to an epistasis-based model for heterosis
Julie B. Fiévet, Christine Dillmann and Dominique de Vienne
475-490
Original Paper
Background correction of two-colour cDNA microarray data using spatial smoothing methods
André Schützenmeister and Hans-Peter Piepho