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Semi-High Throughput Screening for Potential Drought-tolerance in Lettuce Lactuca sativa Germplasm Collections
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Correction: Drought adaptation index (DAI) based on BLUP as a selection approach for drought-resilient switchgrass
Shiva Om Makaju1,2,3, Hari Bahadur Chhetri4, Chanaka Roshan Abeyratne4
1Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
Frontiers in Genetics
|November 28, 2025
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2025.1626083.].
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