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Molecular Evaluation of Plant Genetic Resources

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Book cover Gene Conservation and Exploitation

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A central problem of biology is the description, classification and management of organic diversity. In one form or another this theme pervades biological science from the ecosystem level down to the population level. Diversity also has a central role in the science of genetics which originated from attempts to uncover the rules that govern the transmission of phenotypic variations between generations. Every student of introductory biology learns that the Mendelian method requires alternate allelic forms of a gene for any genetic analysis. Similarly, plant and animal improvement programs are absolutely dependent on useful genetic variants to achieve their goals of greater agricultural productivity (Brown et al., 1988; Day et al., 1991).

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    Michael T. Clegg

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Clegg, M.T. (1993). Molecular Evaluation of Plant Genetic Resources. In: Gustafson, J.P., Appels, R., Raven, P. (eds) Gene Conservation and Exploitation. Stadler Genetics Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1136-0_6

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