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Genetic characterization of a core set of a tropical maize race Tuxpeño for further use in maize improvement.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Wen Weiwei, Franco Jorge, Chavez-Tovar Victor H, Yan Jianbing, Taba Suketoshi
Abstract excerpt
The tropical maize race Tuxpeño is a well-known race of Mexican dent germplasm which has greatly contributed to the development of tropical and subtropical maize gene pools. In order to investigate how it could be exploited in future maize improvement, a panel of maize germplasm accessions was assembled and characterized using genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) markers. This panel included 321 core...
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