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Reinventing quantitative genetics for plant breeding: something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE.
Heredity - 1 Dec 2020
Bernardo Rex
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The goals of quantitative genetics differ according to its field of application. In plant breeding, the main focus of quantitative genetics is on identifying candidates with the best genotypic value for a target population of environments. Keeping quantitative genetics current requires keeping old concepts that remain useful, letting go of what has become archaic, and introducing new concepts and methods that...
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