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Genetic and epigenetic alteration among three homoeologous genes of a class E MADS box gene in hexaploid wheat.
The Plant cell - 1 Jun 2007
Shitsukawa Naoki, Tahira Chikako, Kassai Ken-Ichiro, Hirabayashi Chizuru, Shimizu Tomoaki, Takumi Shigeo, Mochida Keiichi, Kawaura Kanako, Ogihara Yasunari, Murai Koji
Abstract excerpt
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a hexaploid species with A, B, and D ancestral genomes. Most bread wheat genes are present in the genome as triplicated homoeologous genes (homoeologs) derived from the ancestral species. Here, we report that both genetic and epigenetic alterations have occurred in the homoeologs of a wheat class E MADS box gene. Two class E genes are identified in wheat, wheat SEPALLATA (WSEP)...
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