Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Veerappan, Vijaykumar ^a   Jani, Mehul ^a   Kadel, Khem ^a   Troiani, Taylor ^a   Gale, Ronny ^a   Mayes, Tyler ^a   Shulaev, Elena ^a   Wen, Jiangqi ^b   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^b   Azad, Rajeev K ^a   Dickstein, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

DNF2; Forward genetics; Medicago truncatula; NIN; Nodulation; PLC like; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation; TAIL PCR; Tnt1 mutants; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; NIN GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLC GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION; THERMAL ASYMMETRIC INTERLACED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TNT1 GENE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOTYPE; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOTYPE; GENOME, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85007591277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2452-5     Document Type: Article

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