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Genetic control of pear rootstock-induced dwarfing and precocity is linked to a chromosomal region syntenic to the apple Dw1 loci.
BMC plant biology - 22 Sept 2015
Knäbel Mareike, Friend Adam P, Palmer John W, Diack Robert, Wiedow Claudia, Alspach Peter, Deng Cecilia, Gardiner Susan E, Tustin D Stuart, Schaffer Robert, Foster Toshi, Chagné David
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BACKGROUND: The vigour and precocity of trees highly influences their efficiency in commercial production. In apple, dwarfing rootstocks allow high-density plantings while their precocious flowering enables earlier fruit production. Currently, there is a lack of pear (Pyrus communis L.) rootstocks that are equivalent to the high yielding apple rootstock 'M9'. For the efficient breeding of new Pyrus rootstocks it...
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