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The control of seed oil polyunsaturate content in the polyploid crop species

Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement (2014-02-04)
Rachel Wells, Martin Trick, Eleni Soumpourou, Leah Clissold, Colin Morgan, Peter Werner, Carl Gibbard, Matthew Clarke, Richard Jennaway, Ian Bancroft
PMID24489479
ABSTRACT

Many important plant species have polyploidy in their recent ancestry, complicating inferences about the genetic basis of trait variation. Although the principal locus controlling the proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in seeds of