Quantitative variation in maize kernel row number is controlled by the FASCIATED EAR2 locus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 334-337

  Bommert, Peter ^a   Nagasawa, Namiko Satoh ^a,b   Jackson, David ^a  

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

^b AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CROP; FASCIATED EAR2 GENE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MERISTEM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEEDS; ZEA MAYS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84874661098     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2534     Document Type: Article

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