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Antagonistic actions of HLH/bHLH proteins are involved in grain length and weight in rice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Heang Dany, Sassa Hidenori
Abstract excerpt
Grain size is a major yield component in rice, and partly controlled by the sizes of the lemma and palea. Molecular mechanisms controlling the sizes of these organs largely remain unknown. In this study, we show that an antagonistic pair of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins is involved in determining rice grain length by controlling cell length in the lemma/palea. Overexpression of an atypical bHLH, named...
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