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The Medicago sativa gene index 1.2: a web-accessible gene expression atlas for investigating expression differences between Medicago sativa subspecies.
BMC genomics - 7 Jul 2015
O'Rourke Jamie A, Fu Fengli, Bucciarelli Bruna, Yang S Sam, Samac Deborah A, Lamb JoAnn F S, Monteros Maria J, Graham Michelle A, Gronwald John W, Krom Nick, Li Jun, Dai Xinbin, Zhao Patrick X, Vance Carroll P
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BACKGROUND: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is the primary forage legume crop species in the United States and plays essential economic and ecological roles in agricultural systems across the country. Modern alfalfa is the result of hybridization between tetraploid M. sativa ssp. sativa and M. sativa ssp. falcata. Due to its large and complex genome, there are few genomic resources available for alfalfa improvement....
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