Association of a CONSTANS-LIKE gene to flowering and height in autotetraploid alfalfa

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 865-876

  Herrmann, Doris ^a,c   Barre, Philippe ^a   Santoni, Sylvain ^b   Julier, Bernadette ^a  

^a French Natl Inst Agr Res INRA   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION MAPPING; CANDIDATE GENES; CONSTANS; FORAGE LEGUMES; FORAGE YIELD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIANCE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEDICAGO; SIMPLE SEQUENCE-REPEAT MARKERS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; STEM ELONGATIONS; STEM HEIGHT; STEM LENGTH; STRUCTURATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALFALFA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TETRAPLOIDY;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRAPLOIDY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 78649630864     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1356-z     Document Type: Article

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