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Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of the tropical pasture grass Brachiaria humidicola based on microsatellites, cytogenetics, morphological traits, and geographical origin.
Genome - 1 Sept 2010
Jungmann L, Vigna B B Z, Boldrini K R, Sousa A C B, do Valle C B, Resende R M S, Pagliarini M S, Zucchi M I, de Souza A P
Abstract excerpt
Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick. is a warm-season grass commonly used as forage in the tropics. Accessions of this species were collected in eastern Africa and massively introduced into South America in the 1980s. Several of these accessions form a germplasm collection at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. However, apomixis, ploidy, and limited knowledge of the genetic basis of this...
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