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Integrative analyses of genetic variation in enzyme activities of primary carbohydrate metabolism reveal distinct modes of regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Joost JB Keurentjes1,2,3*, Ronan Sulpice4, Yves Gibon4, Marie-Caroline Steinhauser4, Jingyuan Fu5, Maarten Koornneef1,6, Mark Stitt4 and Dick Vreugdenhil2

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan, NL-6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands

2 Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan, NL-6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands

3 Centre for Biosystems Genomics, Droevendaalsesteeg, NL-6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands

4 Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany

5 Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Kerklaan, NL-9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands

6 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Cologne, Germany

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R129 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-r129

Published: 18 August 2008

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Additional data file 1:

Table S1: an overview of various statistics of structural genes in relation to their encoding enzymes. Table S2: significant epistatic interactions of all analyzed traits.

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Genome-wide distribution of epistatic loci for all analyzed traits.

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