Abstract:Wild
Helianthus
species are an important genetic resource for sunflower improvement, but sometimes there are adverse interactions between the wild and cultivated sunflowers. This study reports the inheritance of reduced vigor and its restoration resulting from an interaction of perennial
Helianthus
cytoplasms with nuclear genes of cultivated sunflower lines. The large number of vigor restoration (
V
) genes identified in cultivated lines are … Show more
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