Identification of a large deletion in the first intron of the Vrn-D1 locus, associated with loss of vernalization requirement in wild wheat progenitor Aegilops tauschii Coss

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-195

  Takumi, Shigeo ^a   Koyama, Kayoko ^a   Fujiwara, Kensuke ^a   Kobayashi, Fuminori ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flowering time; Intron; Natural variation; Vernalization; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AEGILOPS TAUSCHII; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOMESTICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GERMPLASM; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PLANT GENE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PROMOTER REGION; VERNALIZATION; VRN D1 GENE; WHEAT; WILD PLANT;

AFGHANISTAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; HAPLOTYPES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAKISTAN; POACEAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

AEGILOPS TAUSCHII; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80053297582     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.86.183     Document Type: Article

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