If it ain't broke, don't fix it: evaluating the effect of increased recombination on response to selection for wheat breeding.

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Meiotic recombination is a source of allelic diversity, but the low frequency and biased distribution of crossovers that occur during meiosis limits the genetic variation available to plant breeders. Simulation studies previously identified that increased recombination frequency can retain more genetic variation and drive greater genetic gains than wildtype recombination. Our study was motivated by the need to...

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