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Genetic Analysis of Kernel Traits in Maize-Teosinte Introgression Populations.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 9 Aug 2016
Liu Zhengbin, Garcia Arturo, McMullen Michael D, Flint-Garcia Sherry A
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Seed traits have been targeted by human selection during the domestication of crop species as a way to increase the caloric and nutritional content of food during the transition from hunter-gather to early farming societies. The primary seed trait under selection was likely seed size/weight as it is most directly related to overall grain yield. Additional seed traits involved in seed shape may have also...
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