Prediction of Heterosis for Agronomic Traits in Half-Diallel Cross of Rice ( L.) under Drought Stress Using Microsatellite Markers.

Rice breeders are encouraged to classify potential F1-hybrids without crossing all viable mixtures by testing depending on genetic distance due to lack of labor and time in yield trials. The goals of this research were to establish heterosis and investigate the relationship between genomic distance and agronomic attributes under drought. Half-diallel mating design, 28 F1′s and 8 parents were evaluated under drought and genotyped using 11 microsatellite markers.