A natural mutation-led truncation in one of the two aluminum-activated malate transporter-like genes at the Ma locus is associated with low fruit acidity in apple

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 287, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 663-678

  Bai, Yang ^a   Dougherty, Laura ^a   Li, Mingjun ^b   Fazio, Gennaro ^a   Cheng, Lailiang ^b   Xu, Kenong ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum activated malate transporter (ALMT); Fruit acidity; Haplotype; Ma; Malus (apple)

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ALLELE; APPLE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FRUIT ACIDITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; HAPLOTYPE; MA1 GENE; MA2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENE; PLANT PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; ALUMINUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALATES; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84864652585     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-012-0707-7     Document Type: Article

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