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Large-scale microsatellite development in grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.), an orphan legume of the arid areas.
BMC plant biology - 17 Mar 2014
Yang Tao, Jiang Junye, Burlyaeva Marina, Hu Jinguo, Coyne Clarice J, Kumar Shiv, Redden Robert, Sun Xuelian, Wang Fang, Chang Jianwu, Hao Xiaopeng, Guan Jianping, Zong Xuxiao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L., 2n = 14), a member of the family Leguminosae, holds great agronomic potential as grain and forage legume crop in the arid areas for its superb resilience to abiotic stresses such as drought, flood and salinity. The crop could not make much progress through conventional breeding in the past, and there are hardly any detailed molecular biology studies due to paucity of...
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