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Exploring Identity-By-Descent Segments and Putative Functions Using Different Foundation Parents in Maize.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Wu Xun, Li Yongxiang, Fu Junjie, Li Xin, Li Chunhui, Zhang Dengfeng, Shi Yunsu, Song Yanchun, Li Yu, Wang Tianyu
Abstract excerpt
Maize foundation parents (FPs) play no-alternative roles in hybrid breeding because they were widely used in the development of new lines and hybrids. The combination of different identity-by-descent (IBD) segments and genes could account for the formation patterns of different FPs, and knowledge of these IBD regions would provide an extensive foundation for the development of new candidate FP lines in future...
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