Abstract
Domesticated barleys produce either two- or six- rowed spikes, whereas their immediate wild ancestor, wild barley, is monomorphic for the two-rowed type. The six-rowed spike is a recessive character, conditioned by a major gene at the vrs1 locus. The wild-type (two-rowed) gene includes a homeodomain-leucine zipper I (HD-Zip I) sequence (HvHox1). The correspondence between peptide sequence and some spike variants was studied by re-sequencing the HvHox1 sequence across a large sample of both wild and domesticated accessions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 621-628 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Breeding Science |
Volume | 59 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Barley
- Protein motif
- Row type variation
- Vrs1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Genetics
- Plant Science