Nonsense mutation of an MYB transcription factor is associated with purple-blue flower color in soybean

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 458-463

  Takahashi, Ryoji ^a,b   Benitez, Eduardo R ^a   Oyoo, Maurice E ^b,c   Khan, Nisar A ^a,d   Komatsu, Setsuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blue flower; Glycine max; MYB transcription factor; soybean; W2 gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN MYB;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLEAVED AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC SEQUENCE; CODON; CULTIVAR; FLOWER COLOR; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PETAL; PETUNIA; PH; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOYBEAN; W2 PLANT GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON, NONSENSE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIGMENTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOYBEANS;

GLYCINE MAX; PETUNIA;

EID: 79959506201     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr028     Document Type: Article

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