Temporal Shift of Circadian-Mediated Gene Expression and Carbon Fixation Contributes to Biomass Heterosis in Maize Hybrids

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Ko, Dae Kwan ^a   Rohozinski, Dominica ^b,c   Song, Qingxin ^a   Taylor, Samuel H ^a   Juenger, Thomas E ^a   Harmon, Frank G ^b,c   Chen, Z Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARCH; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CCA1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GREENHOUSE; HETEROSIS; HYBRID; MAIZE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT STEM; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZMCCA1A GENE; ZMCCA1B GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYBRID VIGOR; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEEDLINGS; STARCH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84982812066     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006197     Document Type: Article

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