Meijón, M. and Satbhai , S.B. and Tsuchimatsu, T. and Busch, W. (2013) Genome-wide association study using cellular traits identifies a new regulator of root development in Arabidopsis. Nature Genetics. pp. 1-7.
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Abstract
With the increased availability of high-resolution sequence information, genome-wide association (GWA) studies have become feasible in a number of species1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. The vast majority of these studies are conducted in human populations, where it is difficult to provide strong evidence for the functional involvement of unknown genes that are identified using GWA. Here we used the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana to combine high-throughput confocal microscopy imaging of traits at the cellular level, GWA and expression analyses to identify genomic regions that are associated with developmental cell–type traits. We identify and characterize a new F-box gene, KUK, that regulates meristem and cell length. We further show that polymorphisms in the coding sequence are the major causes of KUK allele–dependent natural variation in root development. This work demonstrates the feasibility of GWA using cellular traits to identify causal genes for basic biological processes such as development
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement > Genetics/Genomics Crop Improvement > Plant Breeding |
| Divisions: | Other Crops |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2014 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2014 10:10 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.2824 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/13399 |
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