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Natural variation and artificial selection in four genes determine grain shape in rice.
The New phytologist - 1 Dec 2013
Lu Li, Shao Di, Qiu Xianjin, Sun Liang, Yan Wenhao, Zhou Xiangchun, Yang Lin, He Yuqing, Yu Sibin, Xing Yongzhong
Abstract excerpt
The size of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) grains has been altered by both domestication and artificial selection over the course of evolutionary history. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for grain size have been cloned in the past 10 yr. To explore the natural variation in these QTLs, resequencing of grain width and weight 2 (GW2), grain size 5 (GS5) and QTL for seed width 5 (qSW5) and genotyping of grain...
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