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An SNP caused loss of seed shattering during rice domestication.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 2 Jun 2006
Konishi Saeko, Izawa Takeshi, Lin Shao Yang, Ebana Kaworu, Fukuta Yoshimichi, Sasaki Takuji, Yano Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Loss of seed shattering was a key event in the domestication of major cereals. We revealed that the qSH1 gene, a major quantitative trait locus of seed shattering in rice, encodes a BEL1-type homeobox gene and demonstrated that a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the 5' regulatory region of the qSH1 gene caused loss of seed shattering owing to the absence of abscission layer formation. Haplotype analysis...
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