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Bountiful harvests of corn and other major crops rely on a mysterious phenomenon known as hybrid vigor.
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Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2021
His workshop has a steampunk quality—almost but not quite identical to one from the nineteen-forties—and his social life has a similar hybrid vigor.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
That’s because most wild pigs in the U.S. are some level of hybrid between domestic pigs and wild boars, creating heterosis or hybrid vigor.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2020
The details of complementation of two alleles matter a great deal to the bottom line, and the concept of hybrid vigor has percolated out to the general public, with the more informed being cognizant of heterozygosity.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
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Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2021
His workshop has a steampunk quality—almost but not quite identical to one from the nineteen-forties—and his social life has a similar hybrid vigor.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
That’s because most wild pigs in the U.S. are some level of hybrid between domestic pigs and wild boars, creating heterosis or hybrid vigor.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2020
The details of complementation of two alleles matter a great deal to the bottom line, and the concept of hybrid vigor has percolated out to the general public, with the more informed being cognizant of heterozygosity.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2010
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