Making the bread: Insights from newly synthesized allohexaploid wheat

Molecular Plant

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 847-859

  Li, Ai Li ^a   Geng, Shuai Feng ^a   Zhang, Lian Quan ^b   Liu, Deng Cai ^b   Mao, Long ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adaptation; allopolyploidy; expression level dominance; heterosis; synthetic wheat

Indexed keywords

AEGILOPS; AEGILOPS TAUSCHII; AEGILOPS TAUSCHII X TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANALYSIS; BREAD; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; WHEAT;

BREAD; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENOME, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; POLYPLOIDY; TRITICUM;

EID: 84930926353     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2015.02.016     Document Type: Review

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