A developing Setaria viridis internode: an experimental system for the study of biomass generation in a C4 model species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently, there has been interest in establishing a monocot C4 model species with a small genome, short lifecycle, and capacity for genetic transformation. Setaria viridis has been adopted to fill this role, since reports of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in 2010, and sequencing of its genome in 2012. To date, S. viridis has primarily been used to further our understanding of C4 photosynthesis, but is also an ideal system for the study of biomass crops, which are almost exclusively C4 panicoid grasses. Biogenesis of stem tissue, its cell wall composition, and soluble sugar content are important determinants of bioenergy crop yields. Here we show that a developing S. viridis internode is a valuable experimental system for gene discovery in relation to these importa

SUBMITTER: Martin AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4766645 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature