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Loss-of-function mutations affecting a specific Glycine max R2R3 MYB transcription factor result in brown hilum and brown seed coats.
BMC plant biology - 9 Nov 2011
Gillman Jason D, Tetlow Ashley, Lee Jeong-Deong, Shannon J Grover, Bilyeu Kristin
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BACKGROUND: Although modern soybean cultivars feature yellow seed coats, with the only color variation found at the hila, the ancestral condition is black seed coats. Both seed coat and hila coloration are due to the presence of phenylpropanoid pathway derivatives, principally anthocyanins. The genetics of soybean seed coat and hilum coloration were first investigated during the resurgence of genetics during the...
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