The genetic architecture of floral traits in the woody plant Prunus mume.
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SUBMITTER: Zhang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5923208 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
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The genetic architecture of floral traits in the woody plant Prunus mume.
Zhang Qixiang Q Zhang He H Sun Lidan L Fan Guangyi G Ye Meixia M Jiang Libo L Liu Xin X Ma Kaifeng K Shi Chengcheng C Bao Fei F Guan Rui R Han Yu Y Fu Yuanyuan Y Pan Huitang H Chen Zhaozhe Z Li Liangwei L Wang Jia J Lv Meiqi M Zheng Tangchun T Yuan Cunquan C Zhou Yuzhen Y Lee Simon Ming-Yuen SM Yan Xiaolan X Xu Xun X Wu Rongling R Chen Wenbin W Cheng Tangren T
Nature communications 20180427 1
Mei (Prunus mume) is an ornamental woody plant that has been domesticated in East Asia for thousands of years. High diversity in floral traits, along with its recent genome sequence, makes mei an ideal model system for studying the evolution of woody plants. Here, we investigate the genetic architecture of floral traits in mei and its domestication history by sampling and resequencing a total of 351 samples including 348 mei accessions and three other Prunus species at an average sequencing dept ...[more]
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