Contributions of flowering time genes to sunflower domestication and improvement

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 271-287

  Blackman, Benjamin K ^a   Rasmussen, David A ^a,f   Strasburg, Jared L ^a,b   Raduski, Andrew R ^a,g   Burke, John M ^c   Knapp, Steven J ^c,d   Michaels, Scott D ^a   Rieseberg, Loren H ^a,e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DOMESTICATION; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUNFLOWER;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; HELIANTHUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS;

HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 78951473633     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.121327     Document Type: Article

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