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The ghost of outcrossing past in downy brome, an inbreeding annual grass.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Meyer Susan E, Ghimire Sudeep, Decker Samuel, Merrill Keith R, Coleman Craig E
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the frequency of outcrossing in downy brome (Bromus tectorum L.), a cleistogamous weedy annual grass, in both common garden and wild populations, using microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) markers. In the common garden study, 25 lines with strongly contrasting genotypes were planted in close proximity. We fingerprinted 10 seed progeny from 8 individuals of each line and detected...
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