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SUBSTITUTION LINE [2 records]

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Record 1 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Handball
OBS

Facilities/equipment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Handball
OBS

Installations/matériel.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

A line in which one chromosome pair is transferred from the donor variety into the recipient variety.

CONT

... special techniques, referred to collectively as "chromosome manipulation" [are] used to incorporate the foreign material. The starting point is a backcross programme which results in either an "addition line" or a "substitution line". The former is aneuploid, with one foreign chromosome added ..., the latter euploid but unbalanced, with the foreign chromosome substituted for one of the recurrent chromosome....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Lignée dans laquelle une paire de chromosomes est transférée d'une variété à une autre.

Spanish

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