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Assessment of genetic diversity in Nordic timothy (Phleum pratense L.).
Hereditas - 1 Jan 2016
Tanhuanpää Pirjo, Erkkilä Maria, Kalendar Ruslan, Schulman Alan Howard, Manninen Outi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Timothy (Phleum pratense L.), a cool-season hexaploid perennial, is the most important forage grass species in Nordic countries. Earlier analyses of genetic diversity in a collection of 96 genebank accessions of timothy with SSR markers demonstrated high levels of diversity but could not resolve population structure. Therefore, we examined a subset of 51 accessions with REMAP markers, which are based...
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