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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep02129
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- foundation Fiat panis, Ulm, Germany
- BILL & MELINDA GATES Foundation
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The needs of a growing human population require rapid and efficient development of improved cultivars by plant breeders. The doubled haploid (DH) technology enables generating completely homozygous lines in a single step and, thus, is central to modern genetics and breeding approaches. Rapid and reliable identification of seeds with a haploid embryo after in vivo haploid induction is elementary in the method utilized in maize but current systems have severe shortcomings preventing their use in many germplasm types. Here, we describe an alternative method for discrimination of haploid from diploid seeds based on differences in their oil content stemming from pollination with high oil inducers. After presenting some fundamental theory, we provide a proof-of-concept with experimental results, demonstrating acceptable error rates across different germplasm. Our approach represents a breakthrough in DH technology in maize, because it is amenable to automated high-throughput screening and applicable to any maize germplasm worldwide.
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