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Ideal crop plant architecture is mediated by tassels replace upper ears1, a BTB/POZ ankyrin repeat gene directly targeted by TEOSINTE BRANCHED1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Oct 2017
Dong Zhaobin, Li Wei, Unger-Wallace Erica, Yang Jinliang, Vollbrecht Erik, Chuck George
Abstract excerpt
Axillary branch suppression is a favorable trait bred into many domesticated crop plants including maize compared with its highly branched wild ancestor teosinte. Branch suppression in maize was achieved through selection of a gain of function allele of the teosinte branched1 (tb1) transcription factor that acts as a repressor of axillary bud growth. Previous work indicated that other loci may function...
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