Shielding the oil reserves: the scutellum as a source of chemical defenses
Plant Physiol
.
2022 Mar 28;188(4):1944-1949.
doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac038.
Authors
Katherine M Murphy
1
,
Elly Poretsky
2
,
Huijun Liu
3
4
5
,
Nikola Micic
4
5
,
Annika Nyhuis
6
,
Joerg Bohlmann
7
,
Eric A Schmelz
2
,
Philipp Zerbe
8
,
Alisa Huffaker
2
,
Nanna Bjarnholt
4
5
Affiliations
1
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132, USA.
2
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92161, USA.
3
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
4
Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg 1871, Denmark.
5
Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen , Frederiksberg 1871, Denmark.
6
Bruker Daltonik GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen 28359, Germany.
7
Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.
8
Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
PMID:
35139208
PMCID:
PMC8968280
DOI:
10.1093/plphys/kiac038
Abstract
The cereal scutellum is a hub for diverse specialized defense metabolism and pathway discovery.
MeSH terms
Plant Physiological Phenomena*
Seeds*
Zea mays*