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Recent degeneration of an old duplicated flowering time gene in Brassica nigra.
Heredity - 1 Jun 2007
Sjödin P, Hedman H, Shavorskaya O, Finet C, Lascoux M, Lagercrantz U
Abstract excerpt
Gene and genome duplications play a major role in the evolution of plant species. The Brassica nigra genome is highly replicated as a result of ancient polyploidization events. Two copies of the flowering time gene CONSTANS (COa and COb) have been identified in B. nigra, and previous studies showed that COa is functional. In the present study, the polymorphism of 92 COb alleles sampled in seven populations was...
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