Natural variation in Ghd7 is an important regulator of heading date and yield potential in rice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 761-767

  Xue, Weiya ^a   Xing, Yongzhong ^a   Weng, Xiaoyu ^a   Zhao, Yu ^a   Tang, Weijiang ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Zhou, Hongju ^a   Yu, Sibin ^a   Xu, Caiguo ^a   Li, Xianghua ^a   Zhang, Qifa ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN GHD7; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CODE; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT HEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RICE; TILLAGE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; FLOWERING TOPS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 43749088351     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.143     Document Type: Article

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