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Genome-wide association study (GWAS) of major QTLs for bunch and oil yield related traits in Elaeis guineensis L.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Apr 2021
B Kalyana Babu, Mathur R K, M V B Venu, Shil Sandip, G Ravichandran, P Anita, H P Bhagya
Abstract excerpt
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is a long breeding cycle perennial crop with a genome size of 1.8 Gb. This is the first report of GWAS on large number of 310 African germplasm using 400 SSR markers till date. Highly significant correlation was found between leaf area (LA) and rachis length (RL) (0.75) followed by bunch weight (BW) and bunch index (BI) (0.65), whereas negative correlation was observed between...
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