Plant Breeding and Predicting Offspring Traits
By Patty Hain - croptechnology.unl.edu
Introduction
Kernel color in an easily observable trait. There are different alleles of the ‘kernel color’ gene that code for different colored kernels. For example, one allele represented with Y (upper-case) encodes yellow colored kernels. Another allele for the color trait encodes white colored kernels represented with the y (lower-case).