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The domestication of plant architecture in African rice.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 May 2018
Hu Min, Lv Shuwei, Wu Wenguang, Fu Yongcai, Liu Fengxia, Wang Bingbing, Li Weiguo, Gu Ping, Cai Hongwei, Sun Chuanqing, Zhu Zuofeng
Abstract excerpt
Plant architecture is a key agronomical factor determining crop yield and has been a major target of cereal crop domestication. The transition of plant architecture from the prostrate tiller of typical African wild rice (Oryza barthii) to the erect tiller of African cultivated rice (Oryza glaberrima) was a key step during domestication of African rice. Here we show that PROG7 (PROSTRATE GROWTH 7), a zinc-finger...
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