Association of the molecular regulation of ear leaf senescence/stress response and photosynthesis/metabolism with heterosis at the reproductive stage in maize

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Song, Yi ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a,b   Tan, Xianjie ^c   Jiang, Yufeng ^c   Gao, Jiong ^a   Lin, Li ^a   Wang, Zhenhua ^a   Ren, Jun ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^c   Qin, Lanqiu ^c   Cheng, Weidong ^a   Qi, Ji ^a,b   Kuai, Benke ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR NON FOOD BIOREFINERY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HETEROSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, PLANT; HYBRID VIGOR; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84979581132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29843     Document Type: Article

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