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Genetic control of inflorescence architecture during rice domestication.
Nature communications - 1 Jan 2013
Zhu Zuofeng, Tan Lubin, Fu Yongcai, Liu Fengxia, Cai Hongwei, Xie Daoxin, Wu Feng, Wu Jianzhong, Matsumoto Takashi, Sun Chuanqing
Abstract excerpt
Inflorescence architecture is a key agronomical factor determining grain yield, and thus has been a major target of cereal crop domestication. Transition from a spread panicle typical of ancestral wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) to the compact panicle of present cultivars (O. sativa L.) was a crucial event in rice domestication. Here we show that the spread panicle architecture of wild rice is controlled by a...
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