From phenotypic to molecular polymorphisms involved in naturally occurring variation of plant development

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 717-732

  Alonso Blanco, Carlos ^a   Mendez Vigo, Belén ^a   Koornneef, Maarten ^b,c  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Domestication; Evolutionary developmental biology (evo devo); Functional polymorphism; Intraspecific (within species) variation; Quantitative trait locus (QTL)

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PLANT DNA;

ADAPTATION; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; FLOWERING; FRUIT MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INFLORESCENCE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEED MORPHOLOGY; SEEDLING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; POACEAE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SOLANACEAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27744585200     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.051994ca     Document Type: Review

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