Browsing by Subject "quantitative traits"
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is the location of a gene that affects a trait that is measured on a quantitative (linear) scale. Many important agricultural traits such as weight gain, milk fat content and intramuscular ...
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(2017-06-28)Crop production must increase by 70% by 2050 in order to meet the expected requirements for population growth. While previous research has resulted in genetic improvement of the grain output in major cereal crops such as ...