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Whole-Genome Analysis of Diversity and SNP-Major Gene Association in Peach Germplasm.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Micheletti Diego, Dettori Maria Teresa, Micali Sabrina, Aramini Valeria, Pacheco Igor, Da Silva Linge Cassia, Foschi Stefano, Banchi Elisa, Barreneche Teresa, Quilot-Turion Bénédicte, Lambert Patrick, Pascal Thierry, Iglesias Ignasi, Carbó Joaquim, Wang Li-Rong, Ma Rui-Juan, Li Xiong-Wei, Gao Zhong-Shan, Nazzicari Nelson, Troggio Michela, Bassi Daniele, Rossini Laura, Verde Ignazio, Laurens François, Arús Pere, Aranzana Maria José
Abstract excerpt
Peach was domesticated in China more than four millennia ago and from there it spread world-wide. Since the middle of the last century, peach breeding programs have been very dynamic generating hundreds of new commercial varieties, however, in most cases such varieties derive from a limited collection of parental lines (founders). This is one reason for the observed low levels of variability of the commercial...
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