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Development and evaluation of a cucumber TILLING population.
BMC research notes - 26 Nov 2014
Fraenkel Rina, Kovalski Irina, Troadec Christelle, Bendahmane Abdelhafid, Perl-Treves Rafael
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BACKGROUND: Ordered collections of mutants serve as invaluable tools in biological research. TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes) provides an efficient method to discover, in mutagenized populations, the possible phenotypes controlled by gene sequences whose function is unknown. This method can replace transgenic techniques for the functional validation of cloned genes, especially in the case of...
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