TY - JA AU - Kempthorne,O. TI - The theory of diallel crosses SN - 0016-6731 PY - 1956/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Oxford University Press KW - AGROVOC KW - Diallel analysis KW - Cross-breeding KW - Genetics N1 - Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=1943-2631; Free Access N2 - Recently there have been extensive discussions of the theory and the analysis of a set of diallel crosses (HULL 1945, 1952; HAYMAN 1954 a, b; JTNKS 1954; JINKS and HAYMAN 1953). The purpose of this note is to state very briefly the theory, including arbitrary epistacy and to note some weaknesses of the general method T2 - Genetics ER -