Pleiotropism of the photoperiod-insensitive allele of Hd1 on heading date, plant height and yield traits in rice.

Five populations segregated in isogenic backgrounds and three sets of near isogenic lines (NILs) overlapping in a 362.3-kb region covering heading date gene Hd1 were developed from the indica rice cross Zhenshan97 (ZS97)/Milyang 46 (MY46). They were used to analyze the effects of Hd1 on heading date...

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Main Authors: Zhen-Hua Zhang, Kai Wang, Liang Guo, Yu-Jun Zhu, Ye-Yang Fan, Shi-Hua Cheng, Jie-Yun Zhuang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3527549?pdf=render