Sixty million years in evolution of soft grain trait in grasses: Emergence of the softness locus in the common ancestor of pooideae and ehrhartoideae, after their divergence from panicoideae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1651-1661

  Charles, Mathieu ^a   Tang, Haibao ^b   Belcram, Harry ^a   Paterson, Andrew ^b   Gornicki, Piotr ^c   Chalhoub, Boulos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Evolution; Grain endosperm softness; Poaceae

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROLAMIN; PUROINDOLINE A; PUROINDOLINE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPOIDIEAE; CEREAL; CROP; EHRHARTOIDEAE; ENDOSPERM; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAIN HARDNESS; GRASS; GSP 1 GENE; HA GENE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANICOIDEAE; PHENOTYPE; PINA GENE; PINB GENE; POOIDEAE; RICE; SEED; SORGHUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; TRITICEAE; WHEAT;

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SORGHUM; TRITICUM;

BRACHYPODIUM; EHRHARTOIDEAE; PANICOIDEAE; POACEAE; POOIDEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; TRITICEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67649331694     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp076     Document Type: Article

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