Diversification of Genes Encoding Granule-Bound Starch Synthase in Monocots and Dicots Is Marked by Multiple Genome-Wide Duplication Events

Jun Cheng; Muhammad Awais Khan; Wen-Ming Qiu; Jing Li; Hui Zhou; Qiong Zhang; Wenwu Guo; Tingting Zhu; Junhua Peng; Fengjie Sun; Shaohua Li; Schuyler S. Korban; Yuepeng Han

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030088

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Diversification of Genes Encoding Granule-Bound Starch Synthase in Monocots and Dicots Is Marked by Multiple Genome-Wide Duplication Events

Jun Cheng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Cheng, Muhammad Awais Khan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Muhammad Awais Khan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Cheng, Muhammad Awais Khan

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Wen-Ming Qiu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Jing Li,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Hui Zhou,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Qiong Zhang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Wenwu Guo,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Tingting Zhu,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Junhua Peng,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Fengjie Sun,

Affiliation School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
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Shaohua Li,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Schuyler S. Korban ,

* E-mail: korban@illinois.edu (SK); yphan@wbgcas.cn (YH)

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Yuepeng Han

* E-mail: korban@illinois.edu (SK); yphan@wbgcas.cn (YH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Diversification of Genes Encoding Granule-Bound Starch Synthase in Monocots and Dicots Is Marked by Multiple Genome-Wide Duplication Events

Jun Cheng,
Muhammad Awais Khan,
Wen-Ming Qiu,
Jing Li,
Hui Zhou,
Qiong Zhang,
Wenwu Guo,
Tingting Zhu,
Junhua Peng,
Fengjie Sun

Published: January 23, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030088

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