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High levels of genetic diversity throughout the range of the Portuguese wheat landrace 'Barbela'.
Annals of botany - 1 Nov 2004
Ribeiro-Carvalho C, Guedes-Pinto H, Igrejas G, Stephenson P, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison J S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Landrace populations represent an important intra-crop reservoir of biodiversity and source of novel gene alleles for use in breeding programmes. Here the aim was to measure the diversity of a wheat landrace, 'Barbela', from the north of Portugal. METHODS: DNA was extracted from 59 accessions of Barbela collected across its geographical range. Diversity was measured by microsatellite length...
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