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Utilization of Sunflower Crop Wild Relatives for Cultivated Sunflower Improvement
2017-05-01
Abstract excerpt
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the few crops native to the United States. The current USDA–ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) crop wild relatives sunflower collection is the largest extant collection in the world, containing 2519 accessions comprising 53 species—39 perennial and 14 annual. To fully utilize gene bank collections, however, researchers need more detailed information about the amou...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a5cf5567-e662-5ddc-970c-9f55c5df5aa8
- DOI
- 10.2135/cropsci2016.10.0856
