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Mapping Prolificacy QTL in Maize and Teosinte.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2016
Yang Liyan, Yang Chin Jian, Cheng Qi, Xue Wei, Doebley John F
Abstract excerpt
Teosinte, the ancestor of maize, possesses multiple ears at each node along its main stalk, whereas maize has only a single ear at each node. With its greater ear number, teosinte is referred to as being more prolific. The grassy tillers 1 (gt1) gene has been identified as a large-effect quantitative trait locus underlying this prolificacy difference between maize and teosinte, and the causal polymorphism for the...
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