Molecular characterization of allelic variation in spontaneous brown midrib mutants of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 795-803

  Gorthy, Sunita ^a   Mayandi, Karthikeyan ^a   Faldu, Dhara ^b   Dalal, Monika ^a,b  

^a ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MILLETS RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

bmr; brown midrib; Caffeic O methyltransferase (COMT); Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD2); SNP

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLONING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENES; LIGNIN; SACCHARIFICATION;

ALLELIC VARIATION; BROWN MIDRIBS; CAFFEIC O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (CAD2); MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH;

AMINO ACIDS;

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 84875737617     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11032-012-9834-4     Document Type: Article

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