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OsPRR37 and Ghd7 are the major genes for general combining ability of DTH, PH and SPP in rice.
Scientific reports - 4 Aug 2015
Liu Chuan, Song Gaoyuan, Zhou Yanhao, Qu Xuefeng, Guo Zhibin, Liu Zhenwei, Jiang Daiming, Yang Daichang
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Artificial selection of high yield crops and better livestock is paramount importance in breeding programs. Selection of elite parents with preferred traits from a phalanx of inbred lines is extremely laborious, time-consuming and highly random. General combining ability (GCA) was proposed and has been widely used for the evaluation of parents in hybrid breeding for more than half a century. However, the genetic...
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