Jingjie Zhang , Shiyi Wu , Miao Wang , Jinke Chang , Xiaopeng Li
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Abstract
Maize is one of the most widely cultivated crops for producing human food, animal feed, and ethanol biofuel. Recent studies have indicated that brassinosteroids (BRs), essential phytohormones for plant growth, development and stress adaptation across plant species, significantly regulate several maize agronomic traits, such as plant height, leaf angle, reproductive development and kernel size. So far, most previous reviews have mainly focused on discussing molecular functions of BRs in model plants like Arabidopsis and rice. A detailed summary of BRs in maize, however, has not yet been presented. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the biosynthesis and signaling transduction pathways of BRs, and summarize the roles of BRs in regulating some agronomic traits such as plant architecture and kernel yield in maize. We also discuss potential opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging BR-centered molecular design strategies for maize improvement.
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Current Plant Biology aims to acknowledge and encourage interdisciplinary research in fundamental plant sciences with scope to address crop improvement, biodiversity, nutrition and human health. It publishes review articles, original research papers, method papers and short articles in plant research fields, such as systems biology, cell biology, genetics, epigenetics, mathematical modeling, signal transduction, plant-microbe interactions, synthetic biology, developmental biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, biotechnologies, bioinformatics and plant genomic resources.
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