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Population-based resequencing reveals that the flowering time adaptation of cultivated barley originated east of the Fertile Crescent.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Oct 2008
Jones Huw, Leigh Fiona J, Mackay Ian, Bower Mim A, Smith Lydia M J, Charles Michael P, Jones Glynis, Jones Martin K, Brown Terence A, Powell Wayne
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Gene resequencing and association analysis present new opportunities to study the evolution of adaptive traits in crop plants. Here we apply these tools to an extensive set of barley accessions to identify a component of the molecular basis of the flowering time adaptation, a trait critical to plant survival. Using an association-based study to relate variation in flowering time to sequence-based polymorphisms in...
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