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Hybridization between crops and wild relatives: the contribution of cultivated lettuce to the vigour of crop-wild hybrids under drought, salinity and nutrient deficiency conditions.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Oct 2012
Uwimana Brigitte, Smulders Marinus J M, Hooftman Danny A P, Hartman Yorike, van Tienderen Peter H, Jansen Johannes, McHale Leah K, Michelmore Richard W, van de Wiel Clemens C M, Visser Richard G F
Abstract excerpt
With the development of transgenic crop varieties, crop-wild hybridization has received considerable consideration with regard to the potential of transgenes to be transferred to wild species. Although many studies have shown that crops can hybridize with their wild relatives and that the resulting hybrids may show improved fitness over the wild parents, little is still known on the genetic contribution of the...
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