A highly conserved gene island of three genes on chromosome 3B of hexaploid wheat: Diverse gene function and genomic structure maintained in a tightly linked block

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Breen, James ^a   Wicker, Thomas ^b   Kong, Xiuying ^c   Zhang, Juncheng ^c   Ma, Wujun ^a,d   Paux, Etienne ^e   Feuillet, Catherine ^e   Appels, Rudi ^a   Bellgard, Matthew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d CAAS/The Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement ^*  (Australia)

^e Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; ORYZA SATIVA; SORGHUM BICOLOR; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; POACEAE; POLYPLOIDY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POACEAE; POLYPLOIDY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; TRITICUM;

EID: 77952701365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-98     Document Type: Article

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