Abstract
Whereas animal breeders largely focus on improvement using additive genetic variance, inbreeding and asexual reproduction allow plant breeders to at least partially exploit non-additive genetic variance as well. We briefly review various approaches used by breeders to exploit dominance and epistatic variance, discuss their constraints and limitations, and examine what (if anything) can be done to improve our ability to further use often untapped genetic variation.
Keywords:Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 56(9) 873–881 doi:10.1071/AR05152
Submitted: 9 May 2005 Accepted: 20 June 2005 Published: 28 September 2005





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