Mining the Cicer arietinum genome for the mildew locus O (Mlo) gene family and comparative evolutionary analysis of the Mlo genes from Medicago truncatula and some other plant species

Journal of Plant Research

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 239-253

  Deshmukh, Reena ^a   Singh, V K ^a   Singh, Brahma Deo ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cicer arietinum; Gene duplication; Medicago truncatula; Mlo genes; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BARREL MEDIC; CICER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME;

CICER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85000634285     PISSN: 09189440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10265-016-0868-2     Document Type: Article

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