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A MITE transposon insertion is associated with differential methylation at the maize flowering time QTL Vgt1.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 7 Mar 2014
Castelletti Sara, Tuberosa Roberto, Pindo Massimo, Salvi Silvio
Abstract excerpt
One of the major quantitative trait loci for flowering time in maize, the Vegetative to generative transition 1 (Vgt1) locus, corresponds to an upstream (70 kb) noncoding regulatory element of ZmRap2.7, a repressor of flowering. At Vgt1, a miniature transposon (MITE) insertion into a conserved noncoding sequence was previously found to be highly associated with early flowering in independent studies. Because...
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