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Functional markers in plants.
Trends in plant science - 1 Nov 2003
Andersen Jeppe R, Lübberstedt Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Different approaches (including association studies) have recently been adopted for the functional characterization of allelic variation in plants and to identify sequence motifs affecting phenotypic variation. We propose the term 'functional markers' for DNA markers derived from such functionally characterized sequence motifs. Functional markers are superior to random DNA markers such as RFLPs, SSRs and AFLPs...
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