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A customized gene expression microarray reveals that the brittle stem phenotype fs2 of barley is attributable to a retroelement in the HvCesA4 cellulose synthase gene.
Plant physiology - 1 Aug 2010
Burton Rachel A, Ma Gang, Baumann Ute, Harvey Andrew J, Shirley Neil J, Taylor Jillian, Pettolino Filomena, Bacic Antony, Beatty Mary, Simmons Carl R, Dhugga Kanwarpal S, Rafalski J Antoni, Tingey Scott V, Fincher Geoffrey B
Abstract excerpt
The barley (Hordeum vulgare) brittle stem mutants, fs2, designated X054 and M245, have reduced levels of crystalline cellulose compared with their parental lines Ohichi and Shiroseto. A custom-designed microarray, based on long oligonucleotide technology and including genes involved in cell wall metabolism, revealed that transcript levels of very few genes were altered in the elongation zone of stem internodes,...
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