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Seed shattering in a wild sorghum is conferred by a locus unrelated to domestication.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Sept 2013
Tang Haibao, Cuevas Hugo E, Das Sayan, Sezen Uzay U, Zhou Chengbo, Guo Hui, Goff Valorie H, Ge Zhengxiang, Clemente Thomas E, Paterson Andrew H
Abstract excerpt
Suppression of seed shattering was a key step during crop domestication that we have previously suggested to be convergent among independent cereal lineages. Positional, association, expression, and mutant complementation data all implicate a WRKY transcription factor, SpWRKY, in conferring shattering to a wild sorghum relative, Sorghum propinquum. We hypothesize that SpWRKY functions in a manner analogous to...
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