Diversity, distribution of Puroindoline genes and their effect on kernel hardness in a diverse panel of Chinese wheat germplasm

Abstract Background Kernel hardness, which has great influence on the end-use properties of common wheat, is mainly controlled by Puroindoline genes, Pina and Pinb. Using EcoTILLING platform, we herein investigated the allelic variations of Pina and Pinb genes and their association with the Single K...

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Main Authors: Xiaoling Ma, Muhammad Sajjad, Jing Wang, Wenlong Yang, Jiazhu Sun, Xin Li, Aimin Zhang, Dongcheng Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-017-1101-8