Employing genome-wide SNP discovery and genotyping strategy to extrapolate the natural allelic diversity and domestication patterns in chickpea

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Kujur, Alice ^a   Bajaj, Deepak ^a   Upadhyaya, Hari D ^b   Das, Shouvik ^a   Ranjan, Rajeev ^a   Shree, Tanima ^a   Saxena, Maneesha S ^a   Badoni, Saurabh ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^c   Tripathi, Shailesh ^d   Gowda, C L ^b   Sharma, Shivali ^b   Singh, Sube ^b   Tyagi, Akhilesh K ^a   Parida, Swarup K ^a  

^a Nationai Institute of Piant Genome Research (NIPGR)   (India)

^b Intemationai Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)   (India)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Cicer; Desi; GBS; Kabuli; Linkage Disequilibrium; SNP

Indexed keywords

CICER; CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 84928034709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00162     Document Type: Article

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