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Breeding new life into plant metabolism

Nature Biotechnology volume 24, pages 418–419 (2006)Cite this article

Combined metabolic and phenotypic analysis of tomato introgression lines provides chemical markers of fruit quality.

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Figure 1: Development of introgression lines to define and map QTLs for crop improvement.

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