Homoeologous exchanges in allopolyploids: how Brassica napus established self-control!

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¹ Genetics, Diversity & Ecophysiology of Cereals, INRAE, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France.
² Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, 78000, France.

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Pierre Sourdille et al. New Phytol. 2021 Mar.

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. 2021 Mar;229(6):3041-3043.

doi: 10.1111/nph.17222.

¹ Genetics, Diversity & Ecophysiology of Cereals, INRAE, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France.
² Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, 78000, France.

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Keywords: Ph1; Ph2; PrBn; chromosome synapsis; crossover; homoeologous exchanges; homoeologous recombination.

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A major quantitative trait locus on chromosome A9, BnaPh1, controls homoeologous recombination in Brassica napus.
Higgins EE, Howell EC, Armstrong SJ, Parkin IAP. Higgins EE, et al. New Phytol. 2021 Mar;229(6):3281-3293. doi: 10.1111/nph.16986. Epub 2020 Nov 3. New Phytol. 2021. PMID: 33020949 Free PMC article.

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