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Seven F1 wheat hybrids were tested at two different spacings of the plants within the rows. Although some crosses exhibited heterosis none yielded significantly more than Thatcher. The yields of the F1 hybrids showed a significant positive correlation with the mean yields of their parents.
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D. R. Knott (1965) studied this question.
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