Allelic variations at four major maturity e genes and transcriptional abundance of the E1 gene are associated with flowering time and maturity of soybean cultivars

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Zhai, Hong ^a   Lü, Shixiang ^a,b   Wang, Yueqiang ^c   Chen, Xin ^d   Ren, Haixiang ^e   Yang, Jiayin ^f   Cheng, Wen ^g   Zong, Chunmei ^e   Gu, Heping ^d   Qiu, Hongmei ^c   Wu, Hongyan ^a   Zhang, Xingzheng ^a,b   Cui, Tingting ^a   Xia, Zhengjun ^a  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c JILIN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^e HEILONGJIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f Huaiyin Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Xuhuai Region in Jiangsu   (China)

^g SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHINA; CULTIVAR; E2 GENE; E3 GENE; E4 GENE; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE E1; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SOYBEAN; ALLELE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ALLELES; CHINA; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOYBEANS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84901297257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097636     Document Type: Article

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