A comprehensive overview of grain development in Brachypodium distachyon variety Bd21.

ABSTRACT: A detailed and comprehensive understanding of seed reserve accumulation is of great importance for agriculture and crop improvement strategies. This work is part of a research programme aimed at using Brachypodium distachyon as a model plant for cereal grain development and filling. The focus was on the Bd21-3 accession, gathering morphological, cytological, and biochemical data, including protein, lipid, sugars, starch, and cell-wall analyses during grain development. This study highlighted the existence of three main developmental phases in Brachypodium caryopsis and provided an extensive description of Brachypodium grain development. In the first phase, namely morphogenesis, the embryo developed rapidly reaching its final morphology about 18 d after fertilization (DAF). Over the same pe

SUBMITTER: Guillon F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3254678 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature