A Green-Cotyledon/Stay-Green Mutant Exemplifies the Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications in Soybean

the Ancient Whole-Genome Duplications in Soybean Michiharu Nakano, Tetsuya Yamada, Yu Masuda, Yutaka Sato, Hideki Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ueda, Ryouhei Morita, Minoru Nishimura, Keisuke Kitamura and Makoto Kusaba* Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526 Japan Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8589 Japan Agrogenomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-860 Japan Institute of Breeding Science, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kamimurata, Hitachi-Ohmiya, 219-2293 Japan Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, The Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526 Japan These authors contributed equally to this work. Present address: Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, RIKEN, Wako, 351-0198 Japan. Present address: Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University, Ikarashi, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181 Japan. *Corresponding author: E-mail, akusaba@hiroshima-u.ac.jp; Fax, +81-82-424-0738. (Received January 29, 2014; Accepted August 5, 2014)