Loss of function of the IAA-glucose hydrolase gene TGW6 enhances rice grain weight and increases yield

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 707-711

  Ishimaru, Ken ^a   Hirotsu, Naoki ^a   Madoka, Yuka ^a   Murakami, Naomi ^a   Hara, Nao ^a   Onodera, Haruko ^a   Kashiwagi, Takayuki ^a   Ujiie, Kazuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Bun Ichi ^b   Onishi, Atsuko ^c   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^c   Katoh, Etsuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Agriculture   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; ENDOSPERM; GRAIN YIELD; GROWTH RATE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; WEIGHT;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HAPLOTYPES; HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 84878705143     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2612     Document Type: Article

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