Open AccessSHAT1, A New Player in Seed Shattering of Rice
Author(s) -
Nancy R. Hofmann
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.112.240310
Subject(s) - biology , stalk , domestication , trait , agronomy , quantitative trait locus , horticulture , ecology , computer science , gene , biochemistry , programming language
A major event in domestication of crops was the elimination of seed shattering, so that instead of falling to the ground, seeds stayed on the stalk until farmers could harvest them ([Doebley, 2006][1]). The SH4 (for grain shattering quantitative trait locus on chromosome4 ) and qSH1 (for
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