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Western white pine SNP discovery and high-throughput genotyping for breeding and conservation applications.
BMC plant biology - 30 Dec 2014
Liu Jun-Jun, Sniezko Richard A, Sturrock Rona N, Chen Hao
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BACKGROUND: Western white pine (WWP, Pinus monticola Douglas ex D. Don) is of high interest in forest breeding and conservation because of its high susceptibility to the invasive disease white pine blister rust (WPBR, caused by the fungus Cronartium ribicola J. C. Fisch). However, WWP lacks genomic resource development and is evolutionarily far away from plants with available draft genome sequences. Here we...
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