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Inheritance of inflorescence architecture in sorghum.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Sept 2006
Brown P J, Klein P E, Bortiri E, Acharya C B, Rooney W L, Kresovich S
Abstract excerpt
The grass inflorescence is the primary food source for humanity, and has been repeatedly shaped by human selection during the domestication of different cereal crops. Of all major cultivated cereals, sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] shows the most striking variation in inflorescence architecture traits such as branch number and branch length, but the genetic basis of this variation is little understood. To...
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