CBF gene copy number variation at Frost Resistance-2 is associated with levels of freezing tolerance in temperate-climate cereals

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-35

  Knox, Andrea K ^a,e   Dhillon, Taniya ^a   Cheng, Hongmei ^a,b   Tondelli, Alessandro ^a,c   Pecchioni, Nicola ^d   Stockinger, Eric J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d CRA Genomic Research Centre   (Italy)

^e WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING FACTORS; CODING SEQUENCES; COPY NUMBER; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE COPY NUMBER; GENOMIC CLONES; GENOMIC REGIONS; MADS-BOX; ORTHOLOGS; PARALOGS; PLEIOTROPIC EFFECTS; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS; SPRING WHEAT; TRITICEAE; WINTER HARDINESS; WINTER WHEAT;

BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA; FREEZING; FROST RESISTANCE;

GENE ENCODING;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; HORDEUM; TRITICEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CLIMATE; COLD; FREEZING; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATION;

ALLELES; CLIMATE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, PLANT; FREEZING; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PLANT; HORDEUM; PLANT PROTEINS; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS, GENOMIC;

EID: 77955502865     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1288-7     Document Type: Article

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