The number of 180- and 350-bp repeat loci does not correlate with the number of knobs in maize.

Claim · model-written summary

The number of 180- and 350-bp repeat loci does not correlate with the number of knobs in maize.

Taxon

maizeZea mayst0

Outcome

number of 180- and 350-bp repeat locie2

Direction

do not correlatee2

Comparator

number of knobse2

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Verbatim

t0

“Knobless Maize Lines”

e2

“Our results show that the number of 180- and 350-bp repeat loci do not correlate with the number of knobs in maize and that these tandem repeats are not independently sufficient to confer knob heterochromatin, even when present at megabase sizes”