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The pangenome of hexaploid bread wheat.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 2017
Montenegro Juan D, Golicz Agnieszka A, Bayer Philipp E, Hurgobin Bhavna, Lee HueyTyng, Chan Chon-Kit Kenneth, Visendi Paul, Lai Kaitao, Doležel Jaroslav, Batley Jacqueline, Edwards David
Abstract excerpt
There is an increasing understanding that variation in gene presence-absence plays an important role in the heritability of agronomic traits; however, there have been relatively few studies on variation in gene presence-absence in crop species. Hexaploid wheat is one of the most important food crops in the world and intensive breeding has reduced the genetic diversity of elite cultivars. Major efforts have...
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