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The occurrence of spring forms in tetraploid Timopheevi wheat is associated with variation in the first intron of the VRN-A1 gene.
BMC plant biology - 16 Nov 2016
Shcherban Andrey Borisovich, Schichkina Aleksandra Aleksandrovna, Salina Elena Artemovna
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Triticum araraticum and Triticum timopheevii are tetraploid species of the Timopheevi group. The former includes both winter and spring forms with a predominance of winter forms, whereas T. timopheevii is considered a spring species. In order to clarify the origin of the spring growth habit in T. timopheevii, allelic variability of the VRN-1 gene was investigated in a set of accessions of both...
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