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linkage drag: a standalone construct

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Plant breeding

the carry-over of unwanted donor chromosome segments linked to a target gene during backcross breeding.

In plant breeding, linkage drag refers to the carry-over of unwanted donor chromosome segments linked to a target gene during backcross breeding. This meaning comes from Young (1989) in Theoretical and Applied Genetics.[1]

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drag3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs linkage4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs plant1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Young, N. D., & Tanksley, S. D. (1989). RFLP analysis of the size of chromosomal segments retained around the Tm-2 locus of tomato during backcross breeding. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 77(3), 353-359. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00305828

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