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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 279-290Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.12.003
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Expansion of the human population demands a significant increase in cereal production. The main component of cereal grains is endosperm, a body of starchy endosperm (SE) cells surrounded by aleurone (AL) cells with transfer cells (TC) at the base and embryo surrounding (ESR) cells adjacent to the embryo. The data reviewed here emphasize the modular nature of endosperm by first suggesting that sucrose promotes development of the fertilized triploid endosperm cell. Next, that the basal syncytial endosperm responds to glucose by turning on TC development. The default endosperm cell fate is SE and ESR differentiation is likely activated by signaling from the embryo. Cells on the exterior surface of the endosperm are specified as AL cells.
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