New insights into structural organization and gene duplication in a 1.75-Mb genomic region harboring the α-gliadin gene family in Aegilops tauschii, the source of wheat D genome

Plant Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 571-583

  Huo, Naxin ^a,b   Dong, Lingli ^c   Zhang, Shengli ^a,d   Wang, Yi ^a   Zhu, Tingting ^b   Mohr, Toni ^a   Altenbach, Susan ^a   Liu, Zhiyong ^c   Dvorak, Jan ^b   Anderson, Olin D ^a   Luo, Ming Cheng ^b   Wang, Daowen ^c   Gu, Yong Q ^a  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aegilops tauschii; gene duplication; gene family; genome evolution; phylogeny; promoter; Triticum aestivum; wheat prolamins; gliadin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION;

AEGILOPS; GENE DUPLICATIONS; GENE FAMILIES; GENOME EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WHEAT PROLAMINS;

GENES;

ALLERGIES; BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; GENES; MUTATION; PATTERNS; WHEAT;

GLIADIN; PROLAMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; POACEAE; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTENY; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; GLIADIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; PROLAMINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; TRITICUM;

EID: 85032932412     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13675     Document Type: Article

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