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The maize d2003, a novel allele of VP8, is required for maize internode elongation.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Feb 2014
Lv Hongkun, Zheng Jun, Wang Tianyu, Fu Junjie, Huai Junling, Min Haowei, Zhang Xiang, Tian Baohua, Shi Yunsu, Wang Guoying
Abstract excerpt
The d2003 is a natural dwarf mutant from maize inbred line K36 and has less than one-third of K36 plant height with severely shortened internodes. In this study, we reported the cloning of d2003 gene using positional cloning. The results showed that there was a single-base insertion in the coding region of Viviparous8 (VP8) in d2003 mutant, which resulted in a premature stop codon. Further genetic allelism tests...
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