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  1. Department of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, IFZ, Research Centre for Bio Systems Land Use and Nutrition, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392, Giessen, Germany

    Wolfgang Friedt

  2. Department of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, IFZ, Research Centre for Bio Systems Land Use and Nutrition, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392, Giessen, Germany

    Rod Snowdon

  3. Institute of Epidemiology and Resistance Resources, Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants, Theodor-Roemer-Weg 4, 06449, Aschersleben, Germany

    Frank Ordon

  4. Department of Crop Science and Plant Breeding, IFZ, Research Centre for Bio Systems Land Use and Nutrition, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392, Giessen, Germany

    Jutta Ahlemeyer

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  1. Lehrstuhl för Allgemeine Botanik, Ruhr Universität, Postfach 10 21 48, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    K. Esser

  2. TU Darmstadt, Institut för Botanik, FB Biologie (10), Schnittspahnstraβe 3-5, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany

    U. Löttge

  3. Fakultät för Biologie, Lehrstuhl för Experimentelle Ökologie und Ökosystembiologie Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstraβe 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    W. Beyschlag

  4. Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 3-7-1 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, 112-0001, Tokyo, Japan

    Jin Murata

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Friedt, W., Snowdon, R., Ordon, F., Ahlemeyer, J. (2007). Plant Breeding: Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Crop Plants and its Exploitation in Breeding. In: Esser, K., Löttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Murata, J. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36832-8_7

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