HorticulturaeMale sterility is an essential trait for minimizing costs and ensuring seed purity in the production of tomato hybrid seeds. However, its application in commercial breeding faces challenges such as instability, low stigma exsertion rates, and the lack of
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PlantsRice is an important diet source for the majority of the world’s population, and meeting the growing need for rice requires significant improvements at the production level.
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The systematics and genetics of tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands (Solanum, Solanaceae) [PDF]
, 2009 Galápagos tomatoes (Solanum section Lycopersicon) have long interested scientists and plant breeders. Several morphological and physiological characters found in the endemic Galápagos tomatoes have been bred into the cultivated Solanum lycopersicum ...
Darwin, S.C.
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Profiling mahua (Bassia latifolia) accessions for flower characters and nutraceutical attributes under north Indian conditions [PDF]
, 2016 Mahua (Bassia latifolia Roxb.) is a characteristic spontaneous crop species found scattered throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Indian subcontinent.
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Hybrids between Duboisia myoporoides and D. leichhardtii [PDF]
, 1949 A brief account is given of the crossing of the Australian alkaloid-bearing species, Duboisia myoporoides and D. leichhardtii, in which acetylene was used to induce flowering.
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Catalogue of introduced and local banana cultivars in the Philippines: Results of a demonstration trial by the Institute of Plant Breeding, University of the Philippines, Los Baños [PDF]
, 2019 This catalogue provides information on the morphological and yield characteristics of 19 introduced and 8 local banana cultivars grown at the IPB-UPLB demonstration plot.
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A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) in Ecuador [PDF]
, 2019 The genus Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) consists of approximately 120 species of herbaceous trailing shrubs, found mostly in cloud forests from Guatemala to Peru. Taxonomic work is difficult for the genus because of its relatively recent diversification (5–
Mashburn, Brock
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POLLINATOR SPECIALIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF POLLINATION SYNDROMES IN THE RELATED SILENE, S. CAROLINIANA, S. VIRGINICA, AND S. STELLATA [PDF]
, 2008 Pollination syndromes are the convergent expression of floral traits in unrelated species reflecting specialized interactions between plants and pollinators exerting similar selection pressures.
Reynolds, Richard James
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Association mapping of stigma and spikelet characteristics in rice (Oryza sativa L.) [PDF]
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