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Development of SSR markers and analysis of diversity in Turkish populations of Brachypodium distachyon.
BMC plant biology - 13 Jul 2009
Vogel John P, Tuna Metin, Budak Hikmet, Huo Naxin, Gu Yong Q, Steinwand Michael A
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BACKGROUND: Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) is rapidly emerging as a powerful model system to facilitate research aimed at improving grass crops for grain, forage and energy production. To characterize the natural diversity of Brachypodium and provide a valuable new tool to the growing list of resources available to Brachypodium researchers, we created and characterized a large, diverse collection of...
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