The separation of male and female flowers in maize provides the potential for independent regulation of traits that affect crop productivity. For example, tassel branch number controls pollen abundance and length of shedding time, whereas ear row number directly affects kernel yield. Mutations in duplicate SBP-box transcription factor genes unbranched2 (ub2) and ub3 affect both of these yield traits. Double mutants display a decrease in tassel branch number and an increase in ear row number, both of which are enhanced by loss of a related gene called tasselsheath4 (tsh4). Furthermore, triple mutants have more tillers and leaves-phenotypes seen in Corngrass1 mutants that result from widespread repression of SBP-box genes. Immunolocalization ...
Plant meristems are self-renewing groups of pluripotent stem cells that produce lateral organs in a ...
Plant architecture and inflorescence architecture , in particular , are major determinates of yiel...
Abstract Background Plant architecture is a critical factor that affects planting density and, conse...
Plant architecture consists of repeating units called phytomers, each containing an internode, leaf ...
Enhancers are cis-acting DNA segments with the ability to increase target gene expression. They show...
Maize inflorescence architecture is dictated by groups of tightly regulated pluripotent stem cells c...
Leaf and floral architectures contribute significantly to crop yield. Leaf architecture, i.e., leaf ...
Development in higher plants depends on the activity of meristems, formative regions that continuous...
Increasing grain yield is required to meet the rapidly expanding demands for food, feed, and fuel. I...
Barren unbranched (Ba-ub) is a new, semi-dominant maize mutant that produces either an unbranched ta...
The development of unisexual flowers through floral organ suppression has been critical for promotin...
Domestication of cereal crops, such as maize, wheat and rice, had a profound influence on agricultur...
Floral morphology is immensely diverse. One developmental process acting to shape this diversity is ...
The product of the maize homeobox gene, knotted1 (kn1), localizes to the nuclei of cells in shoot me...
Summary Ear length (EL), controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTL), is an important component of g...
Plant meristems are self-renewing groups of pluripotent stem cells that produce lateral organs in a ...
Plant architecture and inflorescence architecture , in particular , are major determinates of yiel...
Abstract Background Plant architecture is a critical factor that affects planting density and, conse...
Plant architecture consists of repeating units called phytomers, each containing an internode, leaf ...
Enhancers are cis-acting DNA segments with the ability to increase target gene expression. They show...
Maize inflorescence architecture is dictated by groups of tightly regulated pluripotent stem cells c...
Leaf and floral architectures contribute significantly to crop yield. Leaf architecture, i.e., leaf ...
Development in higher plants depends on the activity of meristems, formative regions that continuous...
Increasing grain yield is required to meet the rapidly expanding demands for food, feed, and fuel. I...
Barren unbranched (Ba-ub) is a new, semi-dominant maize mutant that produces either an unbranched ta...
The development of unisexual flowers through floral organ suppression has been critical for promotin...
Domestication of cereal crops, such as maize, wheat and rice, had a profound influence on agricultur...
Floral morphology is immensely diverse. One developmental process acting to shape this diversity is ...
The product of the maize homeobox gene, knotted1 (kn1), localizes to the nuclei of cells in shoot me...
Summary Ear length (EL), controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTL), is an important component of g...
Plant meristems are self-renewing groups of pluripotent stem cells that produce lateral organs in a ...
Plant architecture and inflorescence architecture , in particular , are major determinates of yiel...
Abstract Background Plant architecture is a critical factor that affects planting density and, conse...