According to the CABI internal selection criteria of potentially yield, scientific value and geographic origin and judged the content to be both novel and important for indexing coverage within CAB Abstracts database. Molecular Plant Breeding (ISSN: 1923-8266) will be planned to begin indexing coverage by CABI from this year.

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