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Casting light on maize inflorescence development under shade

Kong, Li, Xue, Wei, et al. investigate the regulatory modules of tassel and ear development in response to simulated shade in Zea mays. By Dexin Kong1, Qing Liu1 and Haiyang Wang1,2 1State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, South China Agricultural…

Engineering a wheat spike

Li et al. investigated genes regulating wheat spike development and found that SQUAMOSA and SVP genes control the development of normal spikes. Plant Cell. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koab243 By Jorge Dubcovsky, Kun Li and Juan Manuel Debernardi, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Background:…