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New alleles of the wheat domestication gene Q reveal multiple roles in growth and reproductive development.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jun 2017
Greenwood Julian R, Finnegan E Jean, Watanabe Nobuyoshi, Trevaskis Ben, Swain Steve M
Abstract excerpt
The advantages of free threshing in wheat led to the selection of the domesticated Q allele, which is now present in almost all modern wheat varieties. Q and the pre-domestication allele, q, encode an AP2 transcription factor, with the domesticated allele conferring a free-threshing character and a subcompact (i.e. partially compact) inflorescence (spike). We demonstrate that mutations in the miR172 binding site...
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