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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Main Authors: Volodymyr Radchuk, Van Tran, Alexander Hilo, Aleksandra Muszynska, Andre Gündel, Steffen Wagner, Joerg Fuchs, Goetz Hensel, Stefan Ortleb, Eberhard Munz, Hardy Rolletschek, Ljudmilla Borisjuk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01953-1