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Genetic diversity and population structure in a legacy collection of spring barley landraces adapted to a wide range of climates.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Pasam Raj K, Sharma Rajiv, Walther Alexander, Özkan Hakan, Graner Andreas, Kilian Benjamin
Abstract excerpt
Global environmental change and increasing human population emphasize the urgent need for higher yielding and better adapted crop plants. One strategy to achieve this aim is to exploit the wealth of so called landraces of crop species, representing diverse traditional domesticated populations of locally adapted genotypes. In this study, we investigated a comprehensive set of 1485 spring barley landraces (Lrc1485)...
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