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Open AccessAuthor Correction: The value of twinned pollinator-pollen metabarcoding: bumblebee pollination service is weakly partitioned within a UK grassland community
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Open AccessThe value of twinned pollinator-pollen metabarcoding: bumblebee pollination service is weakly partitioned within a UK grassland community
Predicting ecological impact of declining bumblebee (Bombus) populations requires better understanding of interactions between pollinator partitioning of floral resources and plant partitioning of pollinator reso...
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Open AccessReplacing Sanger with Next Generation Sequencing to improve coverage and quality of reference DNA barcodes for plants
We estimate the global BOLD Systems database holds core DNA barcodes (rbcL + matK) for about 15% of land plant species and that comprehensive species coverage is still many decades away. Interim performance of th...
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Confocal observations of late-acting self-incompatibility in Theobroma cacao L.
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) has an idiosyncratic form of late-acting self-incompatibility that operates through the non-fusion of incompatible gametes. Here, we used high-resolution confocal microscopy to define fine...
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Open AccessCytosine methylation regulates oviposition in the pathogenic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni
Similar to other metazoan pathogens, Schistosoma mansoni undergoes transcriptional and developmental regulation during its complex lifecycle and host interactions. DNA methylation as a mechanism to control these ...
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Open AccessProduction of haploids and doubled haploids in oil palm
Oil palm is the world's most productive oil-food crop despite yielding well below its theoretical maximum. This maximum could be approached with the introduction of elite F1 varieties. The development of such eli...
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Open AccessA simple, high throughput method to locate single copy sequences from Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) libraries using High Resolution Melt analysis
The high-throughput anchoring of genetic markers into contigs is required for many ongoing physical map** projects. Multidimentional BAC pooling strategies for PCR-based screening of large insert libraries i...
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Spontaneous capture of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) chloroplasts by wild B. rapa: implications for the use of chloroplast transformation for biocontainment
Environmental concerns over the cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) crops largely centre on the ecological consequences following gene flow to wild relatives. One attractive solution is to deploy bioconta...
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Processes affecting genetic structure and conservation: a case study of wild and cultivated Brassica rapa
When planning optimal conservation strategies for wild and cultivated types of a plant species, a number of influencing biological and environmental factors should be considered from the outset. In the present...
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Genetic Variation in a Chilean Endangered Endemic: Gomortega keule (molina) Baillon
Gomortega keule (Molina) Baillon is an endangered, rare species, the only representative of its genus, and endemic to Central Chile. Populations of this tree are now fragmented and few individuals can be found in...
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Open AccessHigh throughput, high resolution selection of polymorphic microsatellite loci for multiplex analysis
Large-scale genetic profiling, map** and genetic association studies require access to a series of well-characterised and polymorphic microsatellite markers with distinct and broad allele ranges. Selection o...
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Genetics and Biotechnology in Crop Improvement
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Polyploid speciation inHedera (Araliaceae): Phylogenetic and biogeographic insights based on chromosome counts and ITS sequences
Variation in chromosome number and internal transcribed sequences (ITS) of nrDNA is used to infer phylogenetic relationships of a wide range ofHedera species. Polyploidy was found to be frequent inHedera, with di...
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Low probability of chloroplast movement from oilseed rape (Brassica napus) into wild Brassica rapa
Pollen-mediated movement of transgenes from transplastomic oilseed rape (Brassica napus) into wild relatives will be avoided if chloroplasts are maternally transmitted. We assess the probability of chloroplast ex...
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Transgene risk is low
The prospect of a commercial release in Europe of genetically modified oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) has intensified concern over the chances of transgene movement into wild relatives. We have found that poten...
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Concepts of Genetics (5th edn).
