A torenia (Torenia fournieri Lind. ex fourn.) novel mutant 'flecked' produces variegated flowers by insertion of a DNA transposon into an R2R3-MYB gene

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-50

  Nishijima, Takaaki ^a,b   Morita, Yasumasa ^a,c   Sasaki, Katsutomo ^a   Nakayama, Masayoshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroyasu ^a   Ohtsubo, Norihiro ^a   Niki, Tomoya ^a,b   Niki, Tomoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; En Spm family; Mutable allele; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

TORENIA; TORENIA FOURNIERI;

EID: 84873305432     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: 1882336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs1.82.39     Document Type: Article

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