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Genetic gains in grain yield of a maize population improved through marker assisted recurrent selection under stress and non-stress conditions in West Africa

Abdulmalik, R.O.; Menkir, A.; Meseka, S.; Unachukwu, N.; Ado, S.; Olarewaju, J. D.; Aba, D. A.; Hearne, S.; Crossa, J.; Gedil, M. (Frontiers, 2017)

Marker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS) is a breeding method used to accumulate favorable alleles that for example confer tolerance to drought in inbred lines from several genomic regions within a single population. A ...