Pod corn is caused by rearrangement at the Tunicate1 locus

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2733-2744

  Han, Jong Jin ^a,b   Jackson, David ^a   Martienssen, Robert ^a,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84865322931     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.100537     Document Type: Article

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