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QTL mapping of male sterility and transmission pattern in progeny of Satsuma mandarin.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Goto Shingo, Yoshioka Terutaka, Ohta Satoshi, Kita Masayuki, Hamada Hiroko, Shimizu Tokurou
Abstract excerpt
Seedlessness is one of the important traits in citrus breeding. Male sterility derived from Satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu) has been used in Japanese citrus breeding programs to obtain seedless cultivars. The efficiency of seedless cultivar breeding would be improved by developing a selection marker linked to seedlessness. In this study, we performed QTL mapping in 'Okitsu No. 46' × 'Okitsu No. 56' (O46-O56)...
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