A QTL for rice grain width and weight encodes a previously unknown RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 623-630

  Song, Xian Jun ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Shi, Min ^a   Zhu, Mei Zhen ^a   Lin, Hong Xuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE COP1;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAIN (STRUCTURE); GRAIN FILLING; GRAIN PROTEIN CONTENT; GRAIN YIELD; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34247614065     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2014     Document Type: Article

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