A trehalose metabolic enzyme controls inflorescence architecture in maize

Namiko Satoh-Nagasawa, Nobuhiro Nagasawa, Simon Malcomber, Hajime Sakai and David Jackson ()
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Namiko Satoh-Nagasawa: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Nobuhiro Nagasawa: DuPont Crop Genetics Experimental Station E353
Simon Malcomber: University of Missouri–St Louis
Hajime Sakai: DuPont Crop Genetics Experimental Station E353
David Jackson: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7090, 227-230

Abstract: The simple disaccharide trehalose may act as a developmental signal to regulate inflorescence architecture, which is critical for maize crop yields — this role also seems to be conserved in crops of other cereals.

Date: 2006
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