Characterizing the impact of an exotic soybean line on elite cultivar development.

The genetic diversity of North American soybean cultivars has been largely influenced by a small number of ancestors. High yielding breeding lines that possess exotic pedigrees have been developed, but identifying beneficial exotic alleles has been difficult as a result of complex interactions of yi...

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Main Authors: Benjamin B Stewart-Brown, Justin N Vaughn, Thomas E Carter, Zenglu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235434