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Artificial selection for determinate growth habit in soybean.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 May 2010
Tian Zhixi, Wang Xiaobo, Lee Rian, Li Yinghui, Specht James E, Nelson Randall L, McClean Phillip E, Qiu Lijuan, Ma Jianxin
Abstract excerpt
Determinacy is an agronomically important trait associated with the domestication in soybean (Glycine max). Most soybean cultivars are classifiable into indeterminate and determinate growth habit, whereas Glycine soja, the wild progenitor of soybean, is indeterminate. Indeterminate (Dt1/Dt1) and determinate (dt1/dt1) genotypes, when mated, produce progeny that segregate in a monogenic pattern. Here, we show...
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