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Romanian maize (Zea mays) inbred lines as a source of genetic diversity in SE Europe, and their potential in future breeding efforts.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Şuteu Dana, Băcilă Ioan, Haș Voichița, Haș Ioan, Miclăuș Mihai
Abstract excerpt
Maize has always been under constant human selection ever since it had been domesticated. Intensive breeding programs that resulted in the massive use of hybrids nowadays have started in the 60s. That brought significant yield increases but reduced the genetic diversity at the same time. Consequently, breeders and researchers alike turned their attention to national germplasm collections established decades ago...
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