Development and validation of KASP assays for genes underpinning key economic traits in bread wheat

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1843-1860

  Rasheed, Awais ^a,b   Wen, Weie ^a   Gao, Fengmei ^a   Zhai, Shengnan ^a   Jin, Hui ^a   Liu, Jindong ^a   Guo, Qi ^a   Zhang, Yingjun ^a   Dreisigacker, Susanne ^c   Xia, Xianchun ^a   He, Zhonghu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)   (China)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CROPS; FOOD PRODUCTS; GENES;

BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; BREEDING PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL GENES; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HIGH THROUGHPUT GENOTYPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION; MOLECULAR MARKER;

THROUGHPUT;

GENETIC MARKER;

ALLELE; CROP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WHEAT;

ALLELES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84974823983     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2743-x     Document Type: Article

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