Revisiting the hetero-fertilization phenomenon in maize

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gao, Shibin ^a,b   Babu, Raman ^b   Lu, Yanli ^a,b   Martinez, Carlos ^b   Hao, Zhuanfang ^a,c   Krivanek, Alan F ^b   Wang, Jiankang ^c   Rong, Tingzhao ^a   Crouch, Jonathan ^b   Xu, Yunbi ^b,c  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; PLANT DNA;

APOMIXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HETERO FERTILIZATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MAIZE; MARKER ASSISTED BREEDING; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEED PRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS;

ZEA MAYS;

DNA, PLANT; ENDOSPERM; FERTILIZATION; GENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79251620910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016101     Document Type: Article

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