reciprocal differences

[ri′sip·rə·kəl ′dif·rən·səz]

(mathematics)

An interpolation technique using successive quotients of a function with its values so as to obtain a continued fraction expansion approximating the given function by a rational function.

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Reciprocal differences and combining ability for corn earworm injury among maize single crosses.

Combining Abilities for Maize Stem Antibiosis, Yield Loss, and Yield under Infestation and Non Infestation with Pink Stem Borer

Reciprocal differences can be evidence of the involvement of cytoplasmic or maternal factors.

Inheritance of the Vernalization Response Determined by Doubled Haploids in Spring Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.)

In most cases when significant reciprocal differences were found, greater winter survival was achieved when the more cold-tolerant genotype was used as the seed parent, indicating a possible cytoplasmic effect.

Inheritance of cold tolerance in St. Augustinetrass

Lack of reciprocal differences indicates absence of maternal and extrachromosomal inheritance of tolerance to soil acidity.

Diallel analysis of acid-soil tolerant and intolerant tropical maize populations

An earlier analysis of [F.sub.1] progeny from this genotype had not indicated reciprocal differences (Gavin et al., 1989).

Segregation ratios in [F.sub.1] progeny from one of the genotypes, A70-34, showed significant (P [is less than] 0.05) reciprocal differences; there were greater than expected embryogenic plants when it was used as a female.

Inheritance of somatic embryogenesis in orchardgrass

They also observed reciprocal differences that suggested that endosperm genes of the seed that produced the maternal plant affected cob growth in culture.

virginica, and suggested that the reciprocal difference in fertilization level between C.

Factors affecting the fertilization success in laboratory hybridization between Haliotis discus hannai and haliotis gigantea