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Genetic linkage map of the nucleolus organizer region in the soybean
Kiwoung Yang1, Soon-Chun Jeong
1BioEvaluation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea.
Genetics
|January 19, 2008
Abstract:
Simple polymorphisms in ribosomal DNA repeats in the nucleolus organizer region (NOR) permitted the development of markers for the genetic mapping of the soybean NOR. The markers map to the top end of soybean linkage group F, one of either telomeric end predicted in the cytogenetic and primary trisomic studies.
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