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Molecular Markers of Quality Traits and Their Applications

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With the development of economics and people’s living level, wheat quality becomes more and more important. The improvement of wheat quality is considered as an important goal in wheat breeding. Like yield traits, molecular markers have been used in selecting wheat quality.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

    Jichun Tian & Jiansheng Chen

  2. College of Food Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

    Peng Wu

  3. College of Ecology and Garden Architecture, Dezhou University, Dezhou, China

    Guangfeng Chen

  4. Institute of Crop Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, China

    Han Zhang

  5. College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

    Yong Zhao

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Tian, J., Chen, J., Chen, G., Wu, P., Zhang, H., Zhao, Y. (2015). Molecular Markers of Quality Traits and Their Applications. In: Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7447-5_9

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