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Introgression of wild alleles into the tetraploid peanut crop to improve water use efficiency, earliness and yield.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Dutra Wellison F, Guerra Yrlânia L, Ramos Jean P C, Fernandes Pedro D, Silva Carliane R C, Bertioli David J, Leal-Bertioli Soraya C M, Santos Roseane C
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of genes from wild species is a practice little adopted by breeders for the improvement of commercial crops, although it represents an excellent opportunity to enrich the genetic basis and create new cultivars. In peanut, this practice is being increasingly adopted. In this study we present results of introgression of wild alleles from the wild species Arachis duranensis and A. batizocoi...
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