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Species discrimination, population structure and linkage disequilibrium in Eucalyptus camaldulensis and Eucalyptus tereticornis using SSR markers.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Arumugasundaram Shanmugapriya, Ghosh Modhumita, Veerasamy Sivakumar, Ramasamy Yasodha
Abstract excerpt
Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. tereticornis are closely related species commonly cultivated for pulp wood in many tropical countries including India. Understanding the genetic structure and linkage disequilibrium (LD) existing in these species is essential for the improvement of industrially important traits. Our goal was to evaluate the use of simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci for species discrimination,...
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