Mining of Candidate Maize Genes for Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Integrating Gene Expression and QTL Data

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-308

  Liu, Ruixiang ^a,b   Zhang, Hao ^a   Zhao, Pu ^a   Zhang, Zuxin ^a,b   Liang, Wenke ^c   Tian, Zhigang ^d   Zheng, Yonglian ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d Xingtai Institute of Agricultural Science   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon assimilation; Introgression line; Maize; Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); Quantitative trait loci (QTL)

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84858284639     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-011-0346-x     Document Type: Article

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