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Segregation distortion in a region containing a male-sterility, female-sterility locus in soybean.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Oct 2012
Baumbach Jordan, Rogers Joshua P, Slattery Rebecca A, Narayanan Narayanan N, Xu Min, Palmer Reid G, Bhattacharyya Madan K, Sandhu Devinder
Abstract excerpt
In diploid segregation, each alternative allele has a 50% chance of being passed on to the offspring. Mutations in genes involved in the process of meiotic division or early stages of reproductive cell development can affect allele frequency in the gametes. In addition, competition among gametes and differential survival rates of gametes can lead to segregation distortion. In a recent transformation study, a...
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