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David G. Tork, Neil O. Anderson, Donald L. Wyse and Kevin J. Betts
Flaxseed has gained popularity as a health food. Wild, perennial Linum relatives of annual flax (L. usitatissimum) possess similar oil compositions, making them perennial oilseed (OS) alternatives. The objective of this study was to phenotype 25 OS and 1...
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Volker Mohler, Edyta Paczos-Grzeda and Sylwia Sowa
Cereal production is of strategic importance to the world economy. Although the primary aim of breeding programs is to develop cultivars with improved agronomic performance, including high grain yield and grain quality, as well as disease and lodging res...
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Muhammad Mubashar Hussain, Saeed Rauf, Muqadas Noor, Amir Bibi, Rodomiro Ortiz and Jeff Dahlberg
Drought stress is a major production constraint in crops globally. Crop wild relatives are important sources of resistance and tolerance for both biotic and abiotic stresses, respectively. A breeding program was initiated to introgress drought tolerance ...
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Petr Smýkal, Matthew N. Nelson, Jens D. Berger and Eric J.B. Von Wettberg
Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber, forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society and the genetic structure of the domesticated species. The outcomes of crop...
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Andrés R. Schwember
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Genetically modified (GM) crops were introduced in the mid 1990s and two principal transgenic technologies currently dominate the market, herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops and insect-resistant crops (Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops). HT crop...
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