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Construction of a high-density genetic map and the X/Y sex-determining gene mapping in spinach based on large-scale markers developed by specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq).
BMC genomics - 4 Apr 2017
Qian Wei, Fan Guiyan, Liu Dandan, Zhang Helong, Wang Xiaowu, Wu Jian, Xu Zhaosheng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cultivated spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is one of the most widely cultivated types of leafy vegetable in the world, and it has a high nutritional value. Spinach is also an ideal plant for investigating the mechanism of sex determination because it is a dioecious species with separate male and female plants. Some reports on the sex labeling and localization of spinach in the study of molecular...
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