Molecular mapping and genomics of soybean seed protein: a review and perspective for the future

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1975-1991

  Patil, Gunvant ^a   Mian, Rouf ^b   Vuong, Tri ^a   Pantalone, Vince ^c   Song, Qijian ^d   Chen, Pengyin ^a   Shannon, Grover J ^a   Carter, Tommy C ^b   Nguyen, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FORESTRY; GENES; MAPPING; NITROGEN FIXATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOYBEAN OIL;

GENETIC IMPROVEMENTS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HIGH THROUGHPUT GENOTYPING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RATE LIMITING FACTORS; SEED STORAGE PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOYBEAN;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOMICS; PLANT BREEDING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS;

EID: 85027342396     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-2955-8     Document Type: Review

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