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The antioxidative defense system is involved in the delayed senescence in a wheat mutant tasg1.
Plant cell reports - 1 Jun 2012
Hui Zhen, Tian Feng-Xia, Wang Guo-kun, Wang Gui-Ping, Wang Wei
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Wheat, which is the most important food crop worldwide, is a cereal that presents considerable potential for increased yield. A new wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) mutant tasg1 with delayed leaf senescence was constructed using ethyl methane sulfonate as a mutagen. Natural senescence in tasg1 was distinctly delayed in the field, as indicated by the slower progression of chlorophyll degradation, net photosynthetic...
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