Genetic diversity and association mapping of mineral element concentrations in spinach leaves

Abstract Background Spinach is a useful source of dietary vitamins and mineral elements. Breeding new spinach cultivars with high nutritional value is one of the main goals in spinach breeding programs worldwide, and identification of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for mineral element...

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Main Authors: Jun Qin, Ainong Shi, Beiquan Mou, Michael A. Grusak, Yuejin Weng, Waltram Ravelombola, Gehendra Bhattarai, Lingdi Dong, Wei Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4297-y