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Genetic and molecular characterization of the VRN2 loci in tetraploid wheat.
Plant physiology - 1 Jan 2009
Distelfeld Assaf, Tranquilli Gabriela, Li Chengxia, Yan Liuling, Dubcovsky Jorge
Abstract excerpt
Winter wheat (Triticum spp.) varieties require long exposures to low temperatures to flower, a process called vernalization. The VRN2 locus includes two completely linked zinc finger-CCT domain genes (ZCCT1 and ZCCT2) that act as flowering repressors down-regulated during vernalization. Deletions...
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