Multigenic control of pod shattering resistance in Chinese rapeseed germplasm revealed by genome-wide association and linkage analyses

Majority of rapeseed cultivars shatter seeds upon maturity especially under Lights hot-dry and windy conditions, reducing yield and gross margin return to growers.Here, we identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to pod shatter in unstructured diverse panel of 143 rapeseed accessions, and two structured populations derived from bi-pa

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Research protocol and recruitment redesign of a study of pregnant women and their infants during the COVID-19 pandemic: Childhood Allergy and the NeOnatal Environment (CANOE)

Background: Recruitment for research studies is a challenging endeavor that was further complicated by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.We launched a new multicenter birth cohort, Childhood Allergy and the NeOnatal Environment (CANOE), supported by the National Institutes of Health in January 2020 across 4 sites.Although the pandemic temporari

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