Leveraging natural diversity: back through the bottleneck

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-200

  Kovach, MJ ^a   McCouch, SR ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; REVIEW; RICE;

BREEDING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EVOLUTION; ORYZA SATIVA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ORYZA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 41149135271     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2007.12.006     Document Type: Review

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