Opportunities and Challenges to Implementing Genomic Selection in Clonally Propagated Crops

Clonal propagation of fruits, flowers, and forest trees leads to high levels of heterozygosity, fixes favorable combinations of traits, eliminates undesirable deleterious effects, allows easy identification, propagation of favorable mutations, and is an efficient method for in vitro and ex vitro mai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gemenet, D., Khan, A.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: Springer 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92953

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