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Method for the mapping of a female partial-sterile locus on a molecular marker linkage map.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Oct 2009
Chen Jianguo, Walsh Bruce
Abstract excerpt
The female gametophyte is an absolutely essential structure for angiosperm reproduction, and female sterility has been reported in a number of crops. In this paper, a maximum-likelihood method is presented for estimating the position and effect of a female partial-sterile locus in a backcross population using the observed data of dominant or codominant markers. The ML solutions are obtained via Bailey's method....
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