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Association mapping of seed and disease resistance traits in Theobroma cacao L.
Planta - 1 Dec 2016
Motilal Lambert A, Zhang Dapeng, Mischke Sue, Meinhardt Lyndel W, Boccara Michel, Fouet Olivier, Lanaud Claire, Umaharan Pathmanathan
Abstract excerpt
MAIN CONCLUSION: Microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism markers that could be used in marker assisted breeding of cacao were identified for number of filled seeds, black pod resistance and witches' broom disease resistance. An association mapping approach was employed to identify markers for seed number and resistance to black pod and witches' broom disease (WBD) in cacao (Theobroma cacao L.)....
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