Metabolite-based genome-wide association study enables dissection of the flavonoid decoration pathway of wheat kernels

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2020, Pages 1722-1735

  Chen, Jie ^a   Hu, Xin ^a   Shi, Taotao ^a   Yin, Huanran ^a   Sun, Dongfa ^a   Hao, Yuanfeng ^b   Xia, Xianchun ^b   Luo, Jie ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c   He, Zhonghu ^b   Chen, Wei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

flavonoid decoration; metabolite based genome wide association study (mGWAS); metabolomics associated breeding; pathway elucidation; wheat kernels

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID;

GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHEAT;

FLAVONOIDS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRITICUM;

EID: 85081918923     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13335     Document Type: Article

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