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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 172-177Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2008.01.007
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- BBSRC [BBS/E/J/000CA348] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/J/000CA364, BBS/E/J/000CA387, BBS/E/J/00000129, BBS/E/J/000CA348] Funding Source: Medline
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Brachypodium distachyon is a wild grass with a short life cycle. Although it is related to small grain cereals such as wheat, its genome is only a fraction of the size. A draft genome sequence is currently available, and molecular and genetic tools have been developed for transformation, mutagenesis and gene mapping. Accessions collected from across its ancestral range show a surprising degree of phenotypic variation in many traits, including those implicated in domestication of the cereals. Thus, given its rapid cycling time and ease of cultivation, Brachypodium will be a useful model for investigating problems in grass biology.
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