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Naturally occurring genetic variation in plants can be very useful to dissect the complex regulation of primary metabolism as well as of physiological traits such as photosynthesis and photorespiration. The physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying natural variation in closely related species or accessions may provide important information that can be used to improve crop yield. In this chapter we describe in detail the use of a population of introgression lines (ILs), with the Solanum pennellii IL population as a study case, as a tool for the identification of genomic regions involved in the control of photosynthetic efficiency.
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Financial support was provided by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) (grant numbers APQ-00688-12, CRA BDS-00040-14 and BPD-00019-16), Max Planck Society to A.N.N. and W.L.A. Research fellowships granted by CNPq to A.N.N. and W.L.A. are also gratefully acknowledged.
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de Oliveira Silva, F.M., de Ávila Silva, L., Araújo, W.L., Zsögön, A., Nunes-Nesi, A. (2017). Exploiting Natural Variation to Discover Candidate Genes Involved in Photosynthesis-Related Traits. In: Fernie, A., Bauwe, H., Weber, A. (eds) Photorespiration. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1653. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7225-8_9
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