Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Deficiency of a triterpene pathway results in humidity-sensitive genic male sterility in rice

  • Zheyong Xue,
  • Xia Xu,
  • Yuan Zhou,
  • Xiaoning Wang,
  • Yingchun Zhang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Binbin Zhao,
  • Lixin Duan,
  • Xiaoquan Qi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03048-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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In flowering plants, the pollen coat surrounds the male germ cells and protects against dehydration, damage and pathogen attack. Here, the authors show that a deficiency in terpenoid synthesis results in rice pollen over-dehydration and leads to a humidity-sensitive conditional male sterile phenotype.