The New Wheat Vernalization Response Allele Vrn-D1s is Caused by DNA Transposon Insertion in the First Intron

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 294-303

  Muterko, Alexandr ^a   Balashova, Irina ^a   Cockram, James ^b   Kalendar, Ruslan ^c   Sivolap, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Flowering time; Genetic variation; hAT transposon; Hexaploid wheat; Vernalization; Vrn D1

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. COMPACTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. MACHA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. SPELTA; TRITICUM VAVILOVII;

EID: 84961762809     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-014-0750-0     Document Type: Article

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