The Italian Research on the Molecular Characterization of Maize Kernel Development.

ABSTRACT: The study of the genetic control of maize seed development and seed-related pathways has been one of the most important themes approached by the Italian scientific community. Maize has always attracted the interest of the Italian community of agricultural genetics since its beginning, as some of its founders based their research projects on and developed their "schools" by adopting maize as a reference species. Some of them spent periods in the United States, where maize was already becoming a model system, to receive their training. In this manuscript we illustrate the research work carried out in Italy by different groups that studied maize kernels and underline their contributions in elucidating fundamental aspects of caryopsis development through the characterization of maize mutants.

SUBMITTER: Consonni G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9570349 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature