Signaling from maize organ primordia via FASCIATED EAR3 regulates stem cell proliferation and yield traits

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 785-791

  Je, Byoung Il ^a   Gruel, Jeremy ^b   Lee, Young Koung ^a   Bommert, Peter ^a   Arevalo, Edgar Demesa ^a   Eveland, Andrea L ^a,f   Wu, Qingyu ^a   Goldshmidt, Alexander ^a   Meeley, Robert ^c   Bartlett, Madelaine ^d   Komatsu, Mai ^c   Sakai, Hajime ^c   Jönsson, Henrik ^b,e   Jackson, David ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAVATA3 PROTEIN; FASCIATED EAR3 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT YIELD; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; ROOT GROWTH; STEM CELL NICHE; STOP CODON; UPREGULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; SHOOT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MERISTEM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84968546981     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3567     Document Type: Article

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