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Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley.
Nature genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Comadran Jordi, Kilian Benjamin, Russell Joanne, Ramsay Luke, Stein Nils, Ganal Martin, Shaw Paul, Bayer Micha, Thomas William, Marshall David, Hedley Pete, Tondelli Alessandro, Pecchioni Nicola, Francia Enrico, Korzun Viktor, Walther Alexander, Waugh Robbie
Abstract excerpt
As early farming spread from the Fertile Crescent in the Near East around 10,000 years before the present, domesticated crops encountered considerable ecological and environmental change. Spring-sown crops that flowered without the need for an extended period of cold to promote flowering and day length-insensitive crops able to exploit the longer, cooler days of higher latitudes emerged and became established. To...
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