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Timing is everything: early degradation of abscission layer is associated with increased seed shattering in U.S. weedy rice

BACKGROUND: Seed shattering, or shedding, is an important fitness trait for wild and weedy grasses. U.S. weedy rice (Oryza sativa) is a highly shattering weed, thought to have evolved from non-shattering cultivated ancestors. All U.S. weedy rice individuals examined to date contain a mutation in the...

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Autores principales: Thurber, Carrie S, Hepler, Peter K, Caicedo, Ana L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3025945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21235796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-11-14