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Less-than-additive epistatic interactions of quantitative trait loci in tomato.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1996
Eshed Y, Zamir D
Abstract excerpt
Epistasis plays a role in determining the phenotype yet quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping has uncovered little evidence for it. To address this apparent contradiction, we analyzed interactions between individual Lycopersicon pennellii chromosome segments introgressed into an otherwise homogeneous genetic background of L. esculentum (cv. M82). Ten different homozygous introgression lines, each containing from...
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