The conversion of spring wheat into winter wheat and vice versa: False claim or Lamarckian inheritance?

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 321-325

  Li, Xiuju ^a   Liu, Yongsheng ^a  

^a HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenetic inheritance; Lamarckian inheritance; Lysenko's converted wheat; Vernalization

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; VERNALIZATION; WHEAT;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FLOWERING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOWING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRING WHEAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VARIETAS; VERNALIZATION; WINTER WHEAT;

ANIMALS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; SEASONS; TRITICUM;

LAMARCKIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78651322613     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 02505991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-010-0035-1     Document Type: Review

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