A tandem array of CBF/DREB1 genes is located in a major freezing tolerance QTL region on Medicago truncatula chromosome 6

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tayeh, Nadim ^a   Bahrman, Nasser ^a,b   Sellier, Hélène ^b   Bluteau, Aurélie ^a,b   Blassiau, Christelle ^a   Fourment, Joëlle ^c   Bellec, Arnaud ^c   Debellé, Frédéric ^d   Lejeune Hénaut, Isabelle ^b   Delbreil, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Université de Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; CBF DREB1 genes; Fine mapping; Freezing tolerance; Medicago truncatula; Quantitative trait locus (QTL); Sequence polymorphism; Tandem duplication

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BARREL MEDIC; C REPEAT BINDING FACTOR GENE; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR 1 GENE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DEHYDRATION; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84888348700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-814     Document Type: Article

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