The origin of the naked grains of maize

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7051, 2005, Pages 714-719

  Wang, Huai ^a   Nussbaum Wagler, Tina ^a   Li, Bailin ^b   Zhao, Qiong ^a   Vigouroux, Yves ^a,d   Faller, Marianna ^b   Bomblies, Kirsten ^a   Lukens, Lewis ^c   Doebley, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTICATION; KERNEL; MAIZE PROGENITOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TEOSINTE;

AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SURFACES;

CROPS;

MAIZE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; FOOD; GENE CONTROL; GRAIN; MAIZE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AGRICULTURE; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23644434862     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03863     Document Type: Article

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