§Present address: Department of Pomology, National School of Agriculture, Meknes, BP S/40, Morocco Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both ...

All Manihot species so far examined, including cassava (Manihot esculenta), have 2n = 36. Interspecific hybrids between cassava and its wild relatives show fair regular meiosis, and backcrossed ...

Based on simulation studies, it was shown that the type and size of experimental populations can exert an influence on the accuracy of genetic maps. A hypothetical genome map (one chromosome with nine ...

In traditional breeding cycles, inbreeding tends to accumulate because the field pea is an autogamous species, where repeated selfing rapidly fixes alleles, reduces heterozygosity, and narrows the ...