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   Haploids in barley breeding

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: GailM. Littlejohn --- Department of Genetics, Republic of South Africa R. de V. Pienaar --- Department of Genetics, Republic of South Africa

   Haploids are organisms which possess the gametic chromosome number in their somatic tissues. They may arise spontaneously or be induced in a number of ways. Since 1970 haploids have been used as a method of producing pure lines in barley...

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   Development of a doubled haploid mapping population and linkage map for the bread wheat cross Kariega × Avocet S

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: R. Prins --- , South Africa V.P. Ramburan --- , South Africa Z.A. Pretorius --- Department of Plant Sciences, South Africa L.A. Boyd --- Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, UK W. H.P. Boshoff --- , South Africa P.H. Smith --- Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre, UK J.H. Louw --- Department of Genetics, South Africa

   A doubled haploid wheat population of 150 lines was constructed from the F1 of a cross between cultivars Kariega and Avocet S using the wheat-maize technique. Segregation and linkage analysis of 203 DNA markers, two storage protein markers and the...

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