Exploring Identity-By-Descent Segments and Putative Functions Using Different Foundation Parents in Maize.

Maize foundation parents (FPs) play no-alternative roles in hybrid breeding because they were widely used in the development of new lines and hybrids. The combination of different identity-by-descent (IBD) segments and genes could account for the formation patterns of different FPs, and knowledge of...

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Main Authors: Xun Wu, Yongxiang Li, Junjie Fu, Xin Li, Chunhui Li, Dengfeng Zhang, Yunsu Shi, Yanchun Song, Yu Li, Tianyu Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5172581?pdf=render