Transcript suppression of TaGW2 increased grain width and weight in bread wheat

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 341-349

  Hong, Yantao ^a   Chen, Longfei ^a   Du, Li Pu ^a   Su, Zhenqi ^b   Wang, Jinfen ^a   Ye, Xingguo ^a   Qi, Lin ^a   Zhang, Zengyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b Academy of Agriculture and Forestry   (China)

Author keywords

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.); Functional analysis; Grain width; RNA interference; TaGW2

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; GRAIN WEIGHT; GRAIN WIDTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENE; PLANT PARAMETERS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAGW2 GENE; TAGW2A GENE; TAGW2B GENE; TAGW2D GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VARIETAS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BREAD; BREEDING; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RICE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

BREAD; BREEDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRITICUM;

EID: 84903385883     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-014-0380-5     Document Type: Article

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