Instability of Alien Chromosome Introgressions in Wheat Associated with Improper Positioning in the Nucleus
Alien introgressions introduce beneficial alleles into existing crops and hence, are widely used in plant breeding. Generally, introgressed alien chromosomes show reduced meiotic pairing relative to the host genome, and may be eliminated over generations. Reduced pairing appears to result from a fai...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-03-01
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Series: | International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/6/1448 |