Wheat grain filling is limited by grain filling capacity rather than the duration of flag leaf photosynthesis: A case study using NAM RNAi plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Borrill, Philippa ^a   Fahy, Brendan ^a   Smith, Alison M ^a   Uauy, Cristobal ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN; STARCH; STARCH SYNTHASE; PLANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOWERING; GENOTYPE; GRAIN FILLING; GRAIN WEIGHT; LEAF SENESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WHEAT; AGRICULTURE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; FRUCTANS; MICRONUTRIENTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDS; STARCH; TRITICUM;

EID: 84941966184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134947     Document Type: Article

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