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Genetic control of a transition from black to straw-white seed hull in rice domestication.
Plant physiology - 1 Mar 2011
Zhu Bo-Feng, Si Lizhen, Wang Zixuan, Zhou Yan, Zhu Jinjie, Shangguan Yingying, Lu Danfeng, Fan Danlin, Li Canyang, Lin Hongxuan, Qian Qian, Sang Tao, Zhou Bo, Minobe Yuzo, Han Bin
Abstract excerpt
The genetic mechanism involved in a transition from the black-colored seed hull of the ancestral wild rice (Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara) to the straw-white seed hull of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) during grain ripening remains unknown. We report that the black hull of O. rufipogon was controlled by the Black hull4 (Bh4) gene, which was fine-mapped to an 8.8-kb region on rice chromosome 4 using a cross...
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