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Identification and Validation of a New Source of Low Grain Cadmium Accumulation in Durum Wheat.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 2 Mar 2018
Oladzad-Abbasabadi Atena, Kumar Ajay, Pirseyedi Seyed, Salsman Evan, Dobrydina Marina, Poudel Roshan Sharma, AbuHammad Wesam A, Chao Shiaoman, Faris Justin D, Elias Elias M
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Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that has no known biological function and is toxic for many living organisms. The maximum level of Cd concentration allowed in the international market for wheat grain is 0.2 mg kg-1 Because phenotyping for Cd uptake is expensive and time consuming, molecular markers associated with genes conferring low Cd uptake would expedite selection and lead to the development of durum cultivars...
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