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Natural variation in ARF18 gene simultaneously affects seed weight and silique length in polyploid rapeseed.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Sept 2015
Liu Jing, Hua Wei, Hu Zhiyong, Yang Hongli, Zhang Liang, Li Rongjun, Deng Linbin, Sun Xingchao, Wang Xinfa, Wang Hanzhong
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Seed weight (SW), which is one of the three major factors influencing grain yield, has been widely accepted as a complex trait that is controlled by polygenes, particularly in polyploid crops. Brassica napus L., which is the second leading crop source for vegetable oil around the world, is a tetr...
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