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Abstract: The industrial production of the edible basidiomycete P ostreaus is increasing every year Breeding of this fungus, however, is hampered, among other reasons, by a lack of genetic tools useful in the selection of the new genetic material to be introduced in the commercial strams currently available In our laboratory, we are interested in developing such tools useful for P ostreatus breeding (1) molecular markers genetically linked to mating factors in order to speed up the time required for selection of compatible mates, (2) a linkage map based on anonymous, functional, and genetic markers, (3) the molecular karyotype of P ostreatus, and (4) molecular markers that allow the mapping of quantitative trait loci of agronomic interest that can be selected for during the breeding process All these approaches can be adapted to other higher basidiomycetes of interest with similar genetics systems
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