Table 2 Recovery of recurrent parent genome (%) in two backcross generations among the best five introgressed progenies of four crosses.

From: Marker-assisted pyramiding of lycopene-ε-cyclase, β-carotene hydroxylase1 and opaque2 genes for development of biofortified maize hybrids

Cross

Plant no

RPG recovery (%) in BC1F1 generation

Plant no

RPG recovery (%) in BC2F1 generation

QLM11 × HP467-15

1-10

90.4

1-10-2-3

91.1

9-10

89.9

1-10-6-4

90.9

22-6

88.2

22-6-1-6

90.6

23-2

90.8

23-2-6-7

91.3

29-8

92.8

23-2-6-9

94.2

QLM12 × HP467-15

15-1

89.9

16-2-3-7

92.5

16-2

92.4

16-2-5-2

96.0

14-4

89.8

14-4-7-4

93.8

18-5

89.7

18-5-7-9

95.6

18-6

90.0

18-6-7-2

94.4

QLM13 × HP467-15

38-4

85.5

38-4-8-6

91.4

43-4

81.2

43-4-5-6

88.9

48-8

82.9

48-8-3-15

90.6

55-5

84.6

38-4-10-2

93.7

56-3

83.3

43-4-6-1

93.5

QLM14 × HP467-15

68-6

91.3

78-2-3-4

91.3

78-2

88.9

78-2-3-8

90.9

79-8

90.3

79-8-3-7

91.2

86-10

92.8

89-3-4-11

91.7

89-3

90.9

89-3-4-8

92.8