A microRNA allele that emerged prior to apple domestication may underlie fruit size evolution

Plant Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 417-427

  Yao, Jia Long ^a   Xu, Juan ^a,b   Cornille, Amandine ^c,d   Tomes, Sumathi ^a   Karunairetnam, Sakuntala ^a   Luo, Zhiwei ^a   Bassett, Heather ^a   Whitworth, Claire ^a   Rees George, Jonathan ^a   Ranatunga, Chandra ^a   Snirc, Alodie ^c,d   Crowhurst, Ross ^a   De Silva, Nihal ^a   Warren, Ben ^a   Deng, Cecilia ^a   Kumar, Satish ^a   Chagné, David ^a   Bus, Vincent G M ^a   Volz, Richard K ^a   Rikkerink, Erik H A ^a   Gardiner, Susan E ^a   Giraud, Tatiana ^c,d   MacDiarmid, Robin ^a,e   Gleave, Andrew P ^a   more..

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

APETALA2; domestication; fruit size; Malus domestica; microRNA

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GENES; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

APETALA2; BREEDING POPULATIONS; DOMESTICATION; FRUIT SIZE; HUMAN CIVILIZATION; MICRORNAS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

FRUITS;

MICRORNA;

ALLELE; FRUIT; GENETICS; MALUS;

ALLELES; FRUIT; MALUS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84943617592     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13021     Document Type: Article

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