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  1. Cell elongation and expansion are significant contributors to plant growth and morphogenesis, and are often regulated by environmental cues and endogenous hormones. Auxin is one of the most important phytohorm...

    Authors: Peng He, Peng Zhao, Limin Wang, Yuzhou Zhang, Xiaosi Wang, Hui Xiao, Jianing Yu and Guanghui Xiao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:507
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  2. The MYB proteins comprise one of the largest families of plant transcription factors, which are involved in various plant physiological and biochemical processes. Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is one of three most i...

    Authors: Chaoyang Liu, Tao Xie, Chenjie Chen, Aiping Luan, Jianmei Long, Chuhao Li, Yaqi Ding and Yehua He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:503
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  3. A pool of small RNA fragments (RFs) derived from diverse cellular RNAs has recently emerged as a rich source of functionally relevant molecules. Although their formation and accumulation has been connected to ...

    Authors: Paulina Jackowiak, Anna Hojka-Osinska, Anna Philips, Agnieszka Zmienko, Lucyna Budzko, Patrick Maillard, Agata Budkowska and Marek Figlerowicz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:502
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  4. Second generation (2G) ethanol is produced by breaking down lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. In Brazil, sugarcane bagasse has been proposed as the lignocellulosic residue for this biofuel produ...

    Authors: Gustavo Pagotto Borin, Camila Cristina Sanchez, Eliane Silva de Santana, Guilherme Keppe Zanini, Renato Augusto Corrêa dos Santos, Angélica de Oliveira Pontes, Aline Tieppo de Souza, Roberta Maria Menegaldo Tavares Soares Dal’Mas, Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Gustavo Henrique Goldman and Juliana Velasco de Castro Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:501
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  5. Cryptic genetic variation (CGV) is the hidden genetic variation that can be unlocked by perturbing normal conditions. CGV can drive the emergence of novel complex phenotypes through changes in gene expression....

    Authors: Basten L. Snoek, Mark G. Sterken, Roel P. J. Bevers, Rita J. M. Volkers, Arjen van’t Hof, Rachel Brenchley, Joost A. G. Riksen, Andrew Cossins and Jan E. Kammenga
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:500
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  7. Ozone is an air pollutant widely known to cause a decrease in productivity in many plant species, including soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr). While the response of cultivated soybean to ozone has been studied, ver...

    Authors: Nathan Waldeck, Kent Burkey, Thomas Carter, David Dickey, Qijian Song and Earl Taliercio
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:498
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  8. Pre-harvest sprouting frequently occurs in Triticum aestivum (wheat) and Hordeum vulgare (barley) at the end of the maturity period due to high rainfall, particularly in Asian monsoon areas. Seed dormancy is a ma...

    Authors: Kazumitsu Onishi, Miki Yamane, Nami Yamaji, Mayumi Tokui, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Jianzhong Wu, Takao Komatsuda and Kazuhiro Sato
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:497
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2017 18:663

  9. CB-1 and K326 are closely related tobacco cultivars; however, their cold tolerance capacities are different. K326 is much more cold tolerant than CB-1.

    Authors: Jingjing Jin, Hui Zhang, Jianfeng Zhang, Pingping Liu, Xia Chen, Zefeng Li, Yalong Xu, Peng Lu and Peijian Cao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:496
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  10. An increasing number of studies are addressing the evolutionary genomics of dog domestication, principally through resequencing dog, wolf and related canid genomes. There is, however, only one de novo assemble...

    Authors: Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Lukas F. K. Kuderna, Jannikke Räikkönen, Bent Petersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Greger Larson, Ludovic Orlando, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Anders J. Hansen, Love Dalén and M. Thomas P. Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:495
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  11. Although transposons have been identified in almost all organisms, genome-wide information on mariner elements in Aphididae remains unknown. Genomes of Acyrthosiphon pisum, Diuraphis noxia and Myzus persicae belo...

    Authors: Maryem Bouallègue, Jonathan Filée, Imen Kharrat, Maha Mezghani-Khemakhem, Jacques-Deric Rouault, Mohamed Makni and Pierre Capy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:494
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  12. Folsomia candida is a model in soil biology, belonging to the family of Isotomidae, subclass Collembola. It reproduces parthenogenetically in the presence of Wolbachia, and exhibits re...

    Authors: Anna Faddeeva-Vakhrusheva, Ken Kraaijeveld, Martijn F. L. Derks, Seyed Yahya Anvar, Valeria Agamennone, Wouter Suring, Andries A. Kampfraath, Jacintha Ellers, Giang Le Ngoc, Cornelis A. M. van Gestel, Janine Mariën, Sandra Smit, Nico M. van Straalen and Dick Roelofs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:493
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  13. In the course of replication of eukaryotic chromosomes, the telomere length is maintained due to activity of telomerase, the ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase. Abolishing telomerase function causes progr...

    Authors: Alexey V. Beletsky, Alexander N. Malyavko, Maria V. Sukhanova, Eugenia S. Mardanova, Maria I. Zvereva, Olga A. Petrova, Yulia Yu. Parfenova, Maria P. Rubtsova, Andrey V. Mardanov, Olga I. Lavrik, Olga A. Dontsova and Nikolai V. Ravin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:492
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  14. Cornu aspersum is a quite intriguing species from the point of view of ecology and evolution and its potential use in medical and environmental applications. It is a species of economi...

    Authors: Aristeidis Parmakelis, Panayiota Kotsakiozi, Christos K. Kontos, Panagiotis G. Adamopoulos and Andreas Scorilas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:491
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  15. Bacopa monnieri commonly known as Brahmi is utilized in Ayurveda to improve memory and many other human health benefits. Bacosides enriched standardized extract of Bacopa monnieri is b...

    Authors: Gajendra Singh Jeena, Shahnoor Fatima, Pragya Tripathi, Swati Upadhyay and Rakesh Kumar Shukla
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:490
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  16. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that play important roles in the regulation of diverse biological processes in eukaryotes. Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) is one of the most economically...

    Authors: Jiagang Tu, Changxu Tian, Peiqi Zhao, Junxiao Sun, Min Wang, Qixue Fan and Yongchao Yuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:489
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  18. Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) belong to the LTR-retrotransposon family, where the complete HERV sequence contains two long terminal repeats (LTRs) located at each end. Intact LTRs possess highly conser...

    Authors: Tomoaki Kahyo, Hidetaka Yamada, Hong Tao, Nobuya Kurabe and Haruhiko Sugimura
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:487
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  19. The SQUAMOSA promoter binding protein-like (SPL) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) that function in a variety of developmental processes including growth, flower development, and signal tran...

    Authors: Feng Pan, Yue Wang, Huanglong Liu, Min Wu, Wenyuan Chu, Danmei Chen and Yan Xiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:486
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  20. Marine phages are spectacularly diverse in nature. Dozens of roseophages infecting members of Roseobacter clade bacteria were isolated and characterized, exhibiting a very high degree of genetic diversity. In the...

    Authors: Kai Tang, Dan Lin, Qiang Zheng, Keshao Liu, Yujie Yang, Yu Han and Nianzhi Jiao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:485
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  21. We describe an emerging initiative - the ‘Functional Annotation of All Salmonid Genomes’ (FAASG), which will leverage the extensive trait diversity that has evolved since a whole genome duplication event in th...

    Authors: Daniel J. Macqueen, Craig R. Primmer, Ross D. Houston, Barbara F. Nowak, Louis Bernatchez, Steinar Bergseth, William S. Davidson, Cristian Gallardo-Escárate, Tom Goldammer, Yann Guiguen, Patricia Iturra, James W. Kijas, Ben F. Koop, Sigbjørn Lien, Alejandro Maass, Samuel A. M. Martin…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:484
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  22. The 15 sibling species of the Paramecium aurelia cryptic species complex emerged after a whole genome duplication that occurred tens of millions of years ago. Given extensive knowledge of the genetics and epigene...

    Authors: Olivier Arnaiz, Erwin Van Dijk, Mireille Bétermier, Maoussi Lhuillier-Akakpo, Augustin de Vanssay, Sandra Duharcourt, Erika Sallet, Jérôme Gouzy and Linda Sperling
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:483
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  23. Salmonids are ray-finned fishes which constitute 11 genera and at least 70 species including Atlantic salmon, whitefishes, graylings, rainbow trout, and char. The common ancestor of all Salmonidae experienced ...

    Authors: Jeevan Karloss Antony Samy, Teshome Dagne Mulugeta, Torfinn Nome, Simen Rød Sandve, Fabian Grammes, Matthew Peter Kent, Sigbjørn Lien and Dag Inge Våge
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:482
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  24. Abiotic stresses cause severe loss of crop production. Among them, drought is one of the most frequent environmental stresses, which limits crop growth, development and productivity. Plant drought tolerance is...

    Authors: Minmin Liu, Huiyang Yu, Gangjun Zhao, Qiufeng Huang, Yongen Lu and Bo Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:481
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  25. The molecular function of a gene is most commonly inferred by sequence similarity. Therefore, genes that lack sufficient sequence similarity to characterized genes (such as certain classes of transcriptional r...

    Authors: Flavia Bossi, Jue Fan, Jun Xiao, Lilyana Chandra, Max Shen, Yanniv Dorone, Doris Wagner and Seung Y. Rhee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:480
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  26. High throughput gene expression profiling assays of peripheral blood are widely used in biomedicine, as well as in animal genetics and physiology research. Accurate, comprehensive, and precise interpretation o...

    Authors: Haibo Liu, Timothy P.L. Smith, Dan J. Nonneman, Jack C.M. Dekkers and Christopher K. Tuggle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:479
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  27. Sexual reproduction involving the fusion of egg and sperm is prevailing among eukaryotes. In contrast, the nematode Diploscapter coronatus, a close relative of the model Caenorhabditis elegans, reproduces parthen...

    Authors: Hideaki Hiraki, Hiroshi Kagoshima, Christopher Kraus, Philipp H. Schiffer, Yumiko Ueta, Michael Kroiher, Einhard Schierenberg and Yuji Kohara
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:478
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  28. Susceptibility to Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle is governed in part by host genetics. However, cattle diagnosed as infected with M. bovis display varying signs of pathology. The variation in host respon...

    Authors: S. Wilkinson, S.C. Bishop, A.R. Allen, S.H. McBride, R.A. Skuce, M. Bermingham, J.A. Woolliams and E.J. Glass
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:477
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  29. DNA methylation is a frequently studied epigenetic modification due to its role in regulating gene expression and hence in biological processes and in determining phenotypic plasticity in organisms. Rudimentar...

    Authors: Stefano Frattini, Emanuele Capra, Barbara Lazzari, Stephanie D. McKay, Beatrice Coizet, Andrea Talenti, Debora Groppetti, Pietro Riccaboni, Alessandro Pecile, Stefania Chessa, Bianca Castiglioni, John L. Williams, Giulio Pagnacco, Alessandra Stella and Paola Crepaldi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:476
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  30. Flower size varies dramatically across angiosperms, representing innovations over the course of >130 million years of evolution and contributing substantially to relationships with pollinators. However, the ge...

    Authors: Jacob B. Landis, Douglas E. Soltis and Pamela S. Soltis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:475
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  31. Glycosyltransferases comprise a highly divergent and polyphyletic multigene family that is involved in widespread modification of plant secondary metabolites in a process called glycosylation. According to con...

    Authors: Jingyin Yu, Fan Hu, Komivi Dossa, Zhaokai Wang and Tao Ke
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:474
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  32. The understanding of genomic and physiological mechanisms related to how organisms living in extreme environments survive and reproduce is an outstanding question facing evolutionary and organismal biologists....

    Authors: Lauren Kordonowy and Matthew MacManes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:473
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  33. Genetic resistance of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] against Aphis glycines provides effective management of this invasive pest, though the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. This study aimed t...

    Authors: Sungwoo Lee, Bryan J. Cassone, Asela Wijeratne, Tae-Hwan Jun, Andrew P. Michel and M.A. Rouf Mian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:472
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  35. The oil yield trait of oil palm is expected to involve multiple genes, environmental influences and interactions. Many of the underlying mechanisms that contribute to oil yield are still poorly understood. In ...

    Authors: Yick Ching Wong, Huey Fang Teh, Katharina Mebus, Tony Eng Keong Ooi, Qi Bin Kwong, Ka Loo Koo, Chuang Kee Ong, Sean Mayes, Fook Tim Chew, David R. Appleton and Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:470
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  36. Intensive selection has resulted in increased growth rates and muscularity in broiler chickens, in addition to adverse effects, including delayed organ development, sudden death syndrome, and altered metabolic...

    Authors: Tengfei Dou, Sumei Zhao, Hua Rong, Dahai Gu, Qihua Li, Ying Huang, Zhiqiang Xu, Xiaohui Chu, Linli Tao, Lixian Liu, Changrong Ge, Marinus F.W. te Pas and Junjing Jia
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:469
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  37. Mammary glands of dairy cattle produce milk for the newborn offspring and for human consumption. Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) play various functions in eukaryotic cells. However, types and roles o...

    Authors: Chao Tong, Qiaoling Chen, Lili Zhao, Junfei Ma, Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu and Xin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:468
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  38. The biological control agent Pseudomonas chlororaphis PA23 is capable of protecting Brassica napus (canola) from the necrotrophic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum via direct antagonism. While we have elucidated ba...

    Authors: Kelly A. Duke, Michael G. Becker, Ian J. Girard, Jenna L. Millar, W. G. Dilantha Fernando, Mark F. Belmonte and Teresa R. de Kievit
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:467
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  39. One of the overarching goals of soybean breeding is to develop lines that combine increased yield with improved quality characteristics. High-density-marker QTL mapping can serve as an effective strategy to id...

    Authors: Nianxi Liu, Mu Li, Xiangbao Hu, Qibin Ma, Yinghui Mu, Zhiyuan Tan, Qiuju Xia, Gengyun Zhang and Hai Nian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:466
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  40. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is an important plant model system that has played a key role in the early development of molecular plant biology. The tobacco genome is large and its characterisation challenging beca...

    Authors: K. D. Edwards, N. Fernandez-Pozo, K. Drake-Stowe, M. Humphry, A. D. Evans, A. Bombarely, F. Allen, R. Hurst, B. White, S. P. Kernodle, J. R. Bromley, J. P. Sanchez-Tamburrino, R. S. Lewis and L. A. Mueller
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:448
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  41. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is an important staple food crop widely grown in Africa and South Asia. Among the millets, finger millet has high amount of calcium, methionine, tryptophan, fiber, a...

    Authors: Shailaja Hittalmani, H. B. Mahesh, Meghana Deepak Shirke, Hanamareddy Biradar, Govindareddy Uday, Y. R. Aruna, H. C. Lohithaswa and A. Mohanrao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:465
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  42. Fatty acid composition of muscle is an important trait contributing to meat quality. Recently, genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been extensively used to explore the molecular mechanism underlying impor...

    Authors: Bo Zhu, Hong Niu, Wengang Zhang, Zezhao Wang, Yonghu Liang, Long Guan, Peng Guo, Yan Chen, Lupei Zhang, Yong Guo, Heming Ni, Xue Gao, Huijiang Gao, Lingyang Xu and Junya Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:464
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  43. Magnolia champaca, commonly known as champak is a well-known tree due to its highly fragrant flowers. Champak floral scent is attributed to a complex mix of volatile organic compounds ...

    Authors: Savitha Dhandapani, Jingjing Jin, Vishweshwaran Sridhar, Rajani Sarojam, Nam-Hai Chua and In-Cheol Jang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:463
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  44. Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) cyst nematode (SCN, Heterodera glycines I,) is a major pest of soybean worldwide. The most effective strategy to control this pest involves the use of resistant cultivars. The aim o...

    Authors: Xue Zhao, Weili Teng, Yinghui Li, Dongyuan Liu, Guanglu Cao, Dongmei Li, Lijuan Qiu, Hongkun Zheng, Yingpeng Han and Wenbin Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:462
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  45. Alternative transcription start site (TSS) usage plays important roles in transcriptional control of mammalian gene expression. The growing interest in alternative TSSs and their role in genome diversification...

    Authors: Peter Zhang, Emmanuel Dimont, Thomas Ha, Douglas J. Swanson, Winston Hide and Dan Goldowitz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:461
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:39

  46. Gene duplication has led to a most remarkable adaptation involved in vertebrates’ host-pathogen arms-race, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). However, MHC duplication history is as yet poorly understo...

    Authors: Julien Goebel, Marta Promerová, Francesco Bonadonna, Karen D. McCoy, Céline Serbielle, Maria Strandh, Glenn Yannic, Reto Burri and Luca Fumagalli
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:460
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  47. Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 was isolated from a hospital blood specimen in 1971 and has been widely used as a model strain to survey antibiotics susceptibilities, biofilm develop...

    Authors: Huiluo Cao, Yong Lai, Salim Bougouffa, Zeling Xu and Aixin Yan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:459
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  48. Cancer research to date has largely focused on somatically acquired genetic aberrations. In contrast, the degree to which germline, or inherited, variation contributes to tumorigenesis remains unclear, possibl...

    Authors: Alexandra R. Buckley, Kristopher A. Standish, Kunal Bhutani, Trey Ideker, Roger S. Lasken, Hannah Carter, Olivier Harismendy and Nicholas J. Schork
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:458
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  49. Glycogen and trehalose are storage carbohydrates and their levels in microorganisms vary according to environmental conditions. In Neurospora crassa, alkaline pH stress highly influences glycogen levels, and in S...

    Authors: Stela Virgilio, Fernanda Barbosa Cupertino, Daniela Luz Ambrosio and Maria Célia Bertolini
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:457
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  50. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) conferred by the cytoplasm from Gossypium harknessii (D2) is an important system for hybrid seed production in Upland cotton (G. hirsutum). The male sterility of CMS-D2 (i.e., A l...

    Authors: Jianyong Wu, Meng Zhang, Bingbing Zhang, Xuexian Zhang, Liping Guo, Tingxiang Qi, Hailin Wang, Jinfa Zhang and Chaozhu Xing
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:454
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