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Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Jan 2007
Komatsuda Takao, Pourkheirandish Mohammad, He Congfen, Azhaguvel Perumal, Kanamori Hiroyuki, Perovic Dragan, Stein Nils, Graner Andreas, Wicker Thomas, Tagiri Akemi, Lundqvist Udda, Fujimura Tatsuhito, Matsuoka Makoto, Matsumoto Takashi, Yano Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Increased seed production has been a common goal during the domestication of cereal crops, and early cultivators of barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) selected a phenotype with a six-rowed spike that stably produced three times the usual grain number. This improved yield established barley as a founder crop for the Near Eastern Neolithic civilization. The barley spike has one central and two lateral spikelets...
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