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Maize association population: a high-resolution platform for quantitative trait locus dissection.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Dec 2005
Flint-Garcia Sherry A, Thuillet Anne-Céline, Yu Jianming, Pressoir Gael, Romero Susan M, Mitchell Sharon E, Doebley John, Kresovich Stephen, Goodman Major M, Buckler Edward S
Abstract excerpt
Crop improvement and the dissection of complex genetic traits require germplasm diversity. Although this necessary phenotypic variability exists in diverse maize, most research is conducted using a small subset of inbred lines. An association population of 302 lines is now available--a valuable research tool that captures a large proportion of the alleles in cultivated maize. Provided that appropriate statistical...
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