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Synthetic cultivar parent number impacts on genetic drift and disease resistance in alfalfa
2020-09-01
Abstract excerpt
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) varieties are generally bred as synthetics. The number of selected parents to create a variety is important during breeding, as alfalfa suffers from severe inbreeding depression. In this study, we tested if there was more genetic drift in synthetic populations with fewer parents (i.e., narrow‐based synthetics) as measured by two parameters: a loss of allelic richness and changes in dis...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0cecf2a6-cdc3-560a-aecb-1e64ba003517
- DOI
- 10.1002/csc2.20219