Cereal genetics: Novel modulators of spikelet number and flowering time.

Curr Biol

Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences in Weifang, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong, China; School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking University, Beijing, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China. Electronic address:

Published: June 2024

The spikelet is the unit component of the spike and the site of grain production in Triticeae crops. Two new studies revealed that plant-specific transcription factors ALOG1 and PDB1 participate in modulating spikelet number and flowering time in barley and wheat.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.071DOI Listing

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