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Separating the wheat from the chaff - a strategy to utilize plant genetic resources from ex situ genebanks.
Scientific reports - 10 Jun 2014
Keilwagen Jens, Kilian Benjamin, Özkan Hakan, Babben Steve, Perovic Dragan, Mayer Klaus F X, Walther Alexander, Poskar C Hart, Ordon Frank, Eversole Kellye, Börner Andreas, Ganal Martin, Knüpffer Helmut, Graner Andreas, Friedel Swetlana
Abstract excerpt
The need for higher yielding and better-adapted crop plants for feeding the world's rapidly growing population has raised the question of how to systematically utilize large genebank collections with their wide range of largely untouched genetic diversity. Phenotypic data that has been recorded for decades during various rounds of seed multiplication provides a rich source of information. Their usefulness has...
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