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Improving breeding efficiency in potato using molecular and quantitative genetics.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Nov 2014
Slater Anthony T, Cogan Noel O I, Hayes Benjamin J, Schultz Lee, Dale M Finlay B, Bryan Glenn J, Forster John W
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KEY MESSAGE: Potatoes are highly heterozygous and the conventional breeding of superior germplasm is challenging, but use of a combination of MAS and EBVs can accelerate genetic gain. Cultivated potatoes are highly heterozygous due to their outbreeding nature, and suffer acute inbreeding depression. Modern potato cultivars also exhibit tetrasomic inheritance. Due to this genetic heterogeneity, the large number of...
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