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U.S. National Sunflower Association funds sequencing of representative and diverse sunflower cultivars for single nucleotide polymorphism marker identification
USA
March 8, 2010
Source: Sunflower Highlights, newsletter from the U.S. National Sunflower Association (NSA)
The U.S. National Sunflower Association (NSA) board of directors recently authorized spending up to $100,000 to sequence representative and diverse sunflower cultivars for SNP marker identification.
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is increasingly becoming the genetic marker system of choice.
DNA markers have been used extensively for genetic analyses. SNPs are a marker system that can differentiate individuals based on variations detected at the level of a single nucleotide base in the genome.
Such variations are present in large abundance in the genomes of higher organisms including plants.
The NSA funded sequenced cultivars will be in the public domain and available to public and private breeders
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