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Open AccessGenetic diversity in early maturity Chinese and European elite soybeans: A comparative analysis
Soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) is a legume crop important for global food security due to supplying high-quality vegetable protein and oil. China is the origin and rich center of soybean genetic diversity repre...
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Soybean cadmium concentration: validation of a QTL affecting seed cadmium accumulation for improved food safety
Soybean can accumulate considerable amounts of cadmium depending on soil conditions. As low cadmium concentration of soybean is of great interest in soy food production, a major quantitative trait locus descri...
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Genetic relationships and evolution in Cucurbita as viewed with simple sequence repeat polymorphisms: the centrality of C. okeechobeensis
Genetic relationships among 88 accessions from nine of the dozen species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) were assessed from polymorphisms at 74 SSR (simple sequence repeat) loci originating from C. pepo and C. mosch...
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Open AccessGenetic relationships and evolution in Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash, gourd) as revealed by simple sequence repeat polymorphisms
Genetic relationships among 104 accessions of Cucurbita pepo were assessed from polymorphisms in 134 SSR (microsatellite) and four SCAR loci, yielding a total of 418 alleles, distributed among all 20 linkage grou...
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A consensus map for Cucurbita pepo
Using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), simple sequence repeats (SSR), and morphological traits, the first genetic maps for Cucurbita pepo (2n=2x=40) were con...
