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Large deletions within the first intron in VRN-1 are associated with spring growth habit in barley and wheat.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Mar 2005
Fu Daolin, Szucs Péter, Yan Liuling, Helguera Marcelo, Skinner Jeffrey S, von Zitzewitz Jarislav, Hayes Patrick M, Dubcovsky Jorge
Abstract excerpt
The broad adaptability of wheat and barley is in part attributable to their flexible growth habit, in that spring forms have recurrently evolved from the ancestral winter growth habit. In diploid wheat and barley growth habit is determined by allelic variation at the VRN-1 and/or VRN-2 loci, whereas in the polyploid wheat species it is determined primarily by allelic variation at VRN-1. Dominant Vrn-A1 alleles...
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