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Rice BRITTLE CULM 5 (BRITTLE NODE) is involved in secondary cell wall formation in the sclerenchyma tissue of nodes.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Nov 2009
Aohara Tsutomu, Kotake Toshihisa, Kaneko Yasuko, Takatsuji Hiroshi, Tsumuraya Yoichi, Kawasaki Shinji
Abstract excerpt
Several brittle culm (bc) mutants known in grasses are considered excellent materials to study the process of secondary cell wall formation. The brittle phenotype of the rice bc5 (brittle node) mutant appears exclusively in the developed nodes, which is distinct from other bc mutants (bc1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7) that show the brittle phenotype in culms and leaves. To address the defects of the rice bc5 mutant in...
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