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"The establishment of a marker-assisted selection system for the economically important 'bud-flowering' phenotype in the ornamental crop Calluna vulgaris is of great interest to practical breeding companies, as it would allow selection at the juvenile stage. Segregation analyzes revealed a monogenic recessive inheritance of the bud flowering trait. Since in C. vulgaris only sparse molecular data are available, the search for molecular markers in a segregating backcross progeny was accomplished using PCR techniques based on random primers," scientists in Erfurt, Germany report.

"Two candidate RAPD markers in coupling of the trait of interest were identified. on ...

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