Question: When corn plants are too tall, they lodge (topple over) prior to
harvest. This is bad since the g…
When corn plants are too tall, they lodge (topple over) prior to
harvest. This is bad since the grain is often lost when it cannot
be picked up off of the ground by mechanical harvesters. You have a
high-yielding strain of corn, but the plants often lodge. You want
to estimate broad-sense heritability for % lodging in corn. You
start by mating two inbred lines to produce an F1 generation. The
F1 was allowed to intermate to produce an F2 generation. The
variances for each generation are given below:
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