A distant upstream enhancer at the maize domestication gene tb1 has pleiotropic effects on plant and inflorescent architecture

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 594-597

  Clark, Richard M ^a,b   Wagler, Tina Nussbaum ^a   Quijada, Pablo ^a   Doebley, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TB1 GENE;

GENES, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33646368697     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1784     Document Type: Article

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