Use of RAPD for the study of diversity within plant germplasm collections.

doi:10.1038/hdy.1995.25

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Use of RAPD for the study of diversity within plant germplasm collections.

Heredity - 1 Feb 1995

Virk P S, Ford-Lloyd B V, Jackson M T, Newbury H J

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As part of the development of a molecular toolkit for the study of diversity within large plant germplasm collections, RAPD technology has been applied to accessions of rice (Oryza sativa) obtained from the major world collection held at IRRI (the International Rice Research Institute) which supp...

Topics

Base Sequence
DNA Primers
Genetic Variation
Molecular Sequence Data
Oryza
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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