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Fully-Automated High-Throughput NMR System for Screening of Haploid Kernels of Maize (Corn) by Measurement of Oil Content.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Wang Hongzhi, Liu Jin, Xu Xiaoping, Huang Qingming, Chen Shanshan, Yang Peiqiang, Chen Shaojiang, Song Yiqiao
Abstract excerpt
One of the modern crop breeding techniques uses doubled haploid plants that contain an identical pair of chromosomes in order to accelerate the breeding process. Rapid haploid identification method is critical for large-scale selections of double haploids. The conventional methods based on the color of the endosperm and embryo seeds are slow, manual and prone to error. On the other hand, there exists a...
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