The barley Hooded mutation caused by a duplication in a homeobox gene intron.

doi:10.1038/374727a0

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The barley Hooded mutation caused by a duplication in a homeobox gene intron.

Nature - 20 Apr 1995

Müller K J, Romano N, Gerstner O, Garcia-Maroto F, Pozzi C, Salamini F, Rohde W

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In barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) the unit of inflorescence is the spikelet, which bears a fertile bract, the lemma, and the floret consisting of palea, two lodicules, three stamens and the pistil. The Hooded mutation causes the appearance of an extra flower of inverse polarity on the lemma. This ph...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Genes, Homeobox
Genes, Plant
Hordeum
Molecular Sequence Data
Multigene Family
Mutation
Phenotype
Plants, Genetically Modified
Plants, Toxic
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Nicotiana

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