Grain filling in barley relies on developmentally controlled programmed cell death
Radchuk et al. report on the role of vacuolar processing enzymes (VPEs) in mediating programmed cell death (PCD) in the maternal tissues of a barley grain and influencing the delivery of assimilate to the endosperm. This study presents a means of increasing the efficiency of the grain filling proces...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-03-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01953-1 |