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Using the Animal Model to Accelerate Response to Selection in a Self-Pollinating Crop.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 5 May 2015
Cowling Wallace A, Stefanova Katia T, Beeck Cameron P, Nelson Matthew N, Hargreaves Bonnie L W, Sass Olaf, Gilmour Arthur R, Siddique Kadambot H M
Abstract excerpt
We used the animal model in S0 (F1) recurrent selection in a self-pollinating crop including, for the first time, phenotypic and relationship records from self progeny, in addition to cross progeny, in the pedigree. We tested the model in Pisum sativum, the autogamous annual species used by Mendel to demonstrate the particulate nature of inheritance. Resistance to ascochyta blight (Didymella pinodes complex) in...
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