New alleles of the wheat domestication gene Q reveal multiple roles in growth and reproductive development

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1959-1965

  Greenwood, Julian R ^a,b   Finnegan, E Jean ^a   Watanabe, Nobuyoshi ^c   Trevaskis, Ben ^a   Swain, Steve M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AP2; Domestication; Inflorescence; MicroRNA; Spike; Wheat

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DOMESTICATED PLANT; FLORET; GENE MUTATION; GENE Q; INFLORESCENCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPIKELET; WHEAT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCTION;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INFLORESCENCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRITICUM;

EID: 85020111487     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.146407     Document Type: Article

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