Journal
PLANT CELL
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 607-619Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.134585
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- Department of Energy [DE-FG02- 04ER15542]
- Carnegie Institution of Canada
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-04ER15542] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Developing plant embryos depend on nutrition from maternal tissues via the seed coat and endosperm, but the mechanisms that supply nutrients to plant embryos have remained elusive. Sucrose, the major transport form of carbohydrate in plants, is delivered via the phloem to the maternal seed coat and then secreted from the seed coat to feed the embryo. Here, we show that seed filling in Arabidopsis thaliana requires the three sucrose transporters SWEET11, 12, and 15. SWEET11, 12, and 15 exhibit specific spatiotemporal expression patterns in developing seeds, but only a sweet11;12;15 triple mutant showed severe seed defects, which include retarded embryo development, reduced seed weight, and reduced starch and lipid content, causing a wrinkled seed phenotype. In sweet11;12;15 triple mutants, starch accumulated in the seed coat but not the embryo, implicating SWEET-mediated sucrose efflux in the transfer of sugars from seed coat to embryo. This cascade of sequentially expressed SWEETs provides the feeding pathway for the plant embryo, an important feature for yield potential.
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