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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ricci WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6904520 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature plants 20191118 12
Genetic mapping studies on crops suggest that agronomic traits can be controlled by gene-distal intergenic loci. Despite the biological importance and the potential agronomic utility of these loci, they remain virtually uncharacterized in all crop species to date. Here, we provide genetic, epigenomic and functional molecular evidence to support the widespread existence of gene-distal (hereafter, distal) loci that act as long-range transcriptional cis-regulatory elements (CREs) in the maize genom ...[more]