Eleven biosynthetic genes explain the majority of natural variation for carotenoid levels in maize grain
Christine Diepenbrock, Daniel C. Ilut, Maria Magallanes‐Lundback, Catherine B. Kandianis, Alexander Edward Lipka, Peter J. Bradbury, James Brendan Holland, John P. Hamilton, Edmund Wooldridge, Brieanne Vaillancourt, Elsa Góngora‐Castillo, Jason G. Wallace, Jason Cepela, Maria Mateos-Hernandez, Brenda F. Owens, , Dean DellaPenna
The paper identifies eleven biosynthetic genes explaining most of the natural variation in carotenoid levels in maize grain through QTL analysis and expression correlation.
The Plant Cell · Dec 2, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics