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Natural Variation in the Flag Leaf Morphology of Rice Due to a Mutation of the NARROW LEAF 1 Gene in Oryza sativa L.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2015
Taguchi-Shiobara Fumio, Ota Tatsuya, Ebana Kaworu, Ookawa Taiichiro, Yamasaki Masanori, Tanabata Takanari, Yamanouchi Utako, Wu Jianzhong, Ono Nozomi, Nonoue Yasunori, Nagata Kazufumi, Fukuoka Shuichi, Hirabayashi Hideyuki, Yamamoto Toshio, Yano Masahiro
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We investigated the natural variations in the flag leaf morphology of rice. We conducted a principal component analysis based on nine flag leaf morphology traits using 103 accessions from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences Core Collection. The first component explained 39% of total variance, and the variable with highest loading was the width of the flag leaf (WFL). A genome-wide association...
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