Berezhnaya A.A.; Kiseleva A.A.; Salina E.A.
Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia; Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
The yield potential of cultivated plants largely depends on heading dates. The Vrn-B3 wheat gene is one of the key elements in the heading time pathway. Nevertheless, there are only a few studies attempted to identify allelic variations of this gene. Those alleles that were found in previous studies are extremely rare among cultivated varieties.
In this study, common wheat accessions from Russia adapted to the environments of the Siberia region Russia were tested for the allelic diversity of the VRN-B3 gene. The results can be used to research genes regulating heading and for obtaining new wheat varieties with certain heading and flowering times.
