A fertility-restoring genotype of beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is composed of a weak restorer-of-fertility gene and a modifier gene tightly linked to the Rf1 locus

• Takumi Arakawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Arakawa, Daisuke Uchiyama

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Daisuke Uchiyama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Arakawa, Daisuke Uchiyama

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Takashi Ohgami,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Ryo Ohgami,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tomoki Murata,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yujiro Honma,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Hamada,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yosuke Kuroda,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Memuro, Japan

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• Kazunori Taguchi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Memuro, Japan

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• Kazuyoshi Kitazaki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Tomohiko Kubo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomohiko@abs.agr.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-0167

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