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Simultaneous improvement for four quality traits of Zhenshan 97, an elite parent of hybrid rice, by molecular marker-assisted selection.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jan 2003
Zhou P H, Tan Y F, He Y Q, Xu C G, Zhang Q
Abstract excerpt
"Zhenshan 97" is the female parent of a number of widely used hybrids for rice production in China. However, this line is of poor quality because of a high amylose content (AC), a hard gel consistency (GC) and a low gelatinization temperature (GT), together with a chalky endosperm. It had been determined that the three traits for cooking and eating quality, AC, GC and GT, are controlled by the Waxy locus and/or...
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