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A genome-wide association study of seed composition traits in wild soybean (Glycine soja).
BMC genomics - 5 Jan 2017
Leamy Larry J, Zhang Hengyou, Li Changbao, Chen Charles Y, Song Bao-Hua
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BACKGROUND: Cultivated soybean (Glycine max) is a major agricultural crop that provides a crucial source of edible protein and oil. Decreased amounts of saturated palmitic acid and increased amounts of unsaturated oleic acid in soybean oil are considered optimal for human cardiovascular health and therefore there has considerable interest by breeders in discovering genes affecting the relative concentrations of...
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