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Pleiotropic effects of the wheat domestication gene Q on yield and grain morphology.
Planta - 1 May 2018
Xie Quan, Li Na, Yang Yang, Lv Yulong, Yao Hongni, Wei Rong, Sparkes Debbie L, Ma Zhengqiang
Abstract excerpt
MAIN CONCLUSION: Transformation from q to Q during wheat domestication functioned outside the boundary of threshability to increase yield, grains m-2, grain weight and roundness, but to reduce grains per spike/spikelet. Mutation of the Q gene, well-known affecting wheat spike structure, represents a key domestication step in the formation of today's free-threshing, economically important wheats. In a previous...
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