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INTERMEDIUM-C, a modifier of lateral spikelet fertility in barley, is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2011
Ramsay Luke, Comadran Jordi, Druka Arnis, Marshall David F, Thomas William T B, Macaulay Malcolm, MacKenzie Katrin, Simpson Craig, Fuller John, Bonar Nicola, Hayes Patrick M, Lundqvist Udda, Franckowiak Jerome D, Close Timothy J, Muehlbauer Gary J, Waugh Robbie
Abstract excerpt
The domestication of cereals has involved common changes in morphological features, such as seed size, seed retention and modification of vegetative and inflorescence architecture that ultimately contributed to an increase in harvested yield. In barley, this process has resulted in two different cultivated types, two-rowed and six-rowed forms, both derived from the wild two-rowed ancestor, with archaeo-botanical...
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