The occurrence of spring forms in tetraploid Timopheevi wheat is associated with variation in the first intron of the VRN-A1 gene

Abstract Background Triticum araraticum and Triticum timopheevii are tetraploid species of the Timopheevi group. The former includes both winter and spring forms with a predominance of winter forms, whereas T. timopheevii is considered a spring species. In order to clarify the origin of the spring g...

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Main Authors: Andrey Borisovich Shcherban, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Schichkina, Elena Artemovna Salina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-11-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-016-0925-y