Seed filling in domesticated maize and rice depends on SWEET-mediated hexose transport

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1489-1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Sosso ◽  
Dangping Luo ◽  
Qin-Bao Li ◽  
Joelle Sasse ◽  
Jinliang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hexose Transport ◽  
Seed Filling

Evidence that downregulation of hexose transport limits intracellular glucose in 3T3-L1 fibroblasts

Diabetes ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1228-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Whitesell ◽  
D. M. Regen ◽  
D. Pelletier ◽  
N. A. Abumrad
Keyword(s):  
Hexose Transport ◽  
Intracellular Glucose

Yield and Reproductive Growth of Simulated and Field‐Grown Soybean I. Seed‐Filling Duration 1

Crop Science ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 966-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis R. Salado‐Navarro ◽  
Thomas R. Sinclair ◽  
Kuell Hinson
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Growth ◽  
Seed Filling

Effect of high temperature stress on seed filling and nutritional quality of rice (Oryza sativa L.)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
K. PRAVALLIKA ◽  
C. ARUNKUMAR ◽  
A. VIJAYKUMAR ◽  
R. BEENA ◽  
V. G. JAYALEKSHMI
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Temperature Stress ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
High Temperature Stress ◽  
Seed Filling

scholarly journals Sink Strength Maintenance Underlies Drought Tolerance in Common Bean

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Amber Hageman ◽  
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
Keyword(s):  
Common Bean ◽  
Sink Strength ◽  
Total Biomass ◽  
Seed Filling ◽  
Uptake Rates ◽  
Determinate Growth ◽  
Determinate Growth Habit ◽  
Water Limitations ◽  
Uptake And Metabolism ◽  
Do So

Drought is a major limiter of yield in common bean, decreasing food security for those who rely on it as an important source of protein. While drought can have large impacts on yield by reducing photosynthesis and therefore resources availability, source strength is not a reliable indicator of yield. One reason resource availability does not always translate to yield in common bean is because of a trait inherited from wild ancestors. Wild common bean halts growth and seed filling under drought and awaits better conditions to resume its developmental program. This trait has been carried into domesticated lines, where it can result in strong losses of yield in plants already producing pods and seeds, especially since many domesticated lines were bred to have a determinate growth habit. This limits the plants ability to produce another flush of flowers, even if the first set is aborted. However, some bred lines are able to maintain higher yields under drought through maintaining growth and seed filling rates even under water limitations, unlike their wild predecessors. We believe that maintenance of sink strength underlies this ability, since plants which fill seeds under drought maintain growth of sinks generally, and growth of sinks correlates strongly with yield. Sink strength is determined by a tissue’s ability to acquire resources, which in turn relies on resource uptake and metabolism in that tissue. Lines which achieve higher yields maintain higher resource uptake rates into seeds and overall higher partitioning efficiencies of total biomass to yield. Drought limits metabolism and resource uptake through the signaling molecule abscisic acid (ABA) and its downstream affects. Perhaps lines which maintain higher sink strength and therefore higher yields do so through decreased sensitivity to or production of ABA.

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