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Identification of a delayed leaf greening gene from a mutation of pummelo.
Science China. Life sciences - 1 Jul 2021
Yu Hui-Wen, Lu Zhi-Hao, Wang Xia, Liu Dan, He Jia-Xian, Jiang Xiao-Lin, Ke Ling-Jun, Guo Wen-Wu, Deng Xiu-Xin, Xu Qiang
Abstract excerpt
Delayed greening of young leaves is an unusual phenomenon of plants in nature. Citrus are mostly evergreen tree species. Here, a natural mutant of "Guanxi" pummelo (Citrus maxima), which shows yellow leaves at the young stage, was characterized to identify the genes underlying the trait of delayed leaf greening in plants. A segregating population with this mutant as the seed parent and a normal genotype as the...
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