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| Title |
The effect of altered dosage of a mutant allele of Teosinte branched 1 (tb1-ref) on the root system of modern maize
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| Published in |
BMC Genomic Data, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2156-15-23 |
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| Authors |
Amelie CM Gaudin, Sarah A McClymont, Sameh SM Soliman, Manish N Raizada |
| Abstract |
There was ancient human selection on the wild progenitor of modern maize, Balsas teosinte, for decreased shoot branching (tillering), in order to allow more nutrients to be diverted to grain. Mechanistically, the decline in shoot tillering has been associated with selection for increased expression of the major domestication gene Teosinte Branched 1 (Tb1) in shoot primordia. Therefore, TB1 has been defined as a repressor of shoot branching. It is known that plants respond to changes in shoot size by compensatory changes in root growth and architecture. However, it has not been reported whether altered TB1 expression affects any plant traits below ground. Previously, changes in dosage of a well-studied mutant allele of Tb1 in modern maize, called tb1-ref, from one to two copies, was shown to increase tillering. As a result, plants with two copies of the tb1-ref allele have a larger shoot biomass than heterozygotes. Here we used aeroponics to phenotype the effects of tb1-ref copy number on maize roots at macro-, meso- and micro scales of development. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Thailand | 1 | 20% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Researcher | 8 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 8 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 17% |
| Unknown | 18 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 41 | 55% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 23 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 June 2015.
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#8,262,445
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#299
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#96,347
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Genomic Data
#6
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