Temporal Shift of Circadian-Mediated Gene Expression and Carbon Fixation Contributes to Biomass Heterosis in Maize Hybrids

• Dae Kwan Ko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dae Kwan Ko, Dominica Rohozinski, Z. Jeffrey Chen

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Dominica Rohozinski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dae Kwan Ko, Dominica Rohozinski, Z. Jeffrey Chen

  Affiliations Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, California, United States of America, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Qingxin Song,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Samuel H. Taylor,

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9714-0656

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• Thomas E. Juenger,

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Frank G. Harmon,

  Affiliations Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, California, United States of America, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Z. Jeffrey Chen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dae Kwan Ko, Dominica Rohozinski, Z. Jeffrey Chen

  * E-mail: zjchen@austin.utexas.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5006-8036

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