Nature Genetics
- 38, 506 - 507 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ng0506-506
An adaptive path through jungle DNAJuliette de Meaux
Juliette de Meaux is in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany. demeaux@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de
It has long been suspected that phenotypic diversity results, in large part, from variation in DNA regulatory sequences. A new study now shows that adaptive changes in an upstream regulatory sequence of tb1 are responsible for major phenotypic changes associated with maize domestication.
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