Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

G-protein βγ subunits determine grain size through interaction with MADS-domain transcription factors in rice

  • Qian Liu,
  • Ruixi Han,
  • Kun Wu,
  • Jianqing Zhang,
  • Yafeng Ye,
  • Shuansuo Wang,
  • Jianfeng Chen,
  • Yajun Pan,
  • Qi Li,
  • Xiaopeng Xu,
  • Jiawu Zhou,
  • Dayun Tao,
  • Yuejin Wu,
  • Xiangdong Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03047-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cereal crops' grain yield and quality are traits that are usually considered to be negatively correlated. Here, the authors show that interaction of G-protein βγ subunits with an alternatively spliced MADS1lgy3 protein can increase rice grain yield and quality simultaneously in field conditions.