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Detection and validation of stay-green QTL in post-rainy sorghum involving widely adapted cultivar, M35-1 and a popular stay-green genotype B35.
BMC genomics - 18 Oct 2014
Rama Reddy Nagaraja Reddy, Ragimasalawada Madhusudhana, Sabbavarapu Murali Mohan, Nadoor Seetharama, Patil Jagannatha Vishnu
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BACKGROUND: Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important dry-land cereal of the world providing food, fodder, feed and fuel. Stay-green (delayed-leaf senescence) is a key attribute in sorghum determining its adaptation to terminal drought stress. The objective of this study was to validate sorghum stay-green quantitative trait loci (QTL) identified in the past, and to identify new QTL in the genetic...
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