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Chromosome identification and nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor

Jeong-Soon Kim1, Patricia E Klein, Robert R Klein

  • 1Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2474, USA.

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