A TRIM insertion in the promoter of Ms2 causes male sterility in wheat

oleh: Chuan Xia, Lichao Zhang, Cheng Zou, Yongqiang Gu, Jialei Duan, Guangyao Zhao, Jiajie Wu, Yue Liu, Xiaohua Fang, Lifeng Gao, Yuannian Jiao, Jiaqiang Sun, Yinghong Pan, Xu Liu, Jizeng Jia, Xiuying Kong

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-05-01

Deskripsi

The male-sterilems2 mutant has facilitated commercial production of wheat for over 40 years. Here, Xia et al. map Ms2and describe how a retrotransposon insertion event in the regulatory element of an orphan gene is associated with expression in anthers and development of male sterility.