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Segregation patterns of isozyme loci and microsatellite markers show the diploidy of African yam Dioscorea rotundata (2n = 40).
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jul 2005
Scarcelli Nora, Daïnou Ogoubi, Agbangla Clément, Tostain Serge, Pham Jean-Louis
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The cultivated yam species Dioscorea rotundata (2n = 40) has been considered by most authors as a tetraploid species with a basic chromosome number of ten. In this paper, we analysed the segregation of two isozyme loci and six microsatellite markers in the progeny of a self-fertilised monoecious plant. For the eight markers, segregation patterns could be explained by only two genetic models: diploidy or...
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