The Flowering Pathway in Wheat

Wheat Science and Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 57-72

  Yan, Liuling ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic locations of flowering time genes; Genetic loci regulating photoperiod sensitivity; Genetic loci regulating plant development processes; Genetic loci regulating vernalization response; Overview of flowering induction in wheat; Positional cloning of flowering time genes in wheat; Quantitative trait loci affecting flowering time; VRN 1 on the long arm of homoeologous chromosomes 5; VRN Am2 on chromosome 5Am in a genomic region translocated from chromosome 4Am; VRN B3 on the short arm of chromosome 7B

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889296944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813818832.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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