INHERITANCE OF ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT TRAITS BY THE SOFT WINTER WHEAT HYBRIDS IN THE STEPPE ZONE OF ROSTOV REGION
The results of studies on the inheritance of selection-valuable characters by soft winter wheat hybrids are submitted in the article. It is shown that the prospect selection of the hybrid populations of soft winter wheat is determined by studying the inheritance of the most important economically valuable traits in the hybrids of the first generation with the advent of heterosis and positive dominance. The genotypes coming out of such populations in subsequent generations are characterized by higher degree of expressiveness of certain traits, sometimes by the development of a complex of traits, which contributes to increase of their plasticity and adaptability under the conditions of limited moisture and other environmental factors.