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Hallauer's Tusón: a decade of selection for tropical-to-temperate phenological adaptation in maize.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2015
Teixeira J E C, Weldekidan T, de Leon N, Flint-Garcia S, Holland J B, Lauter N, Murray S C, Xu W, Hessel D A, Kleintop A E, Hawk J A, Hallauer A, Wisser R J
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Crop species exhibit an astounding capacity for environmental adaptation, but genetic bottlenecks resulting from intense selection for adaptation and productivity can lead to a genetically vulnerable crop. Improving the genetic resiliency of temperate maize depends upon the use of tropical germplasm, which harbors a rich source of natural allelic diversity. Here, the adaptation process was studied in a tropical...
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