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Acquisition and regeneration of Spinacia turkestanica Iljin and S. tetrandra Steven ex M. Bieb. to improve a spinach gene bank collection
2020-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is a highly nutritious leafy vegetable and an economically important food crop. The wild species S. turkestanica Iljin and S. tetrandra Steven ex M. Bieb. are inter-fertile with cultivated spinach and constitute important sources of novel characters to improve spinach varieties, such as for their resistance to pests and diseases. Despite their relevance in plant breeding, S. turkesta...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 98a6c90c-ecc3-5280-b8cf-7a83a418caa1
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10722-019-00792-8
