Highly Conserved Evolution of Aquaporin PIPs and TIPs Confers Their Crucial Contribution to Flowering Process in Plants

Flowering is the key process for the sexual reproduction in seed plants. In gramineous crops, the process of flowering, which includes the actions of both glume opening and glume closing, is directly driven by the swelling and withering of lodicules due to the water flow into and out of lodicule cel...

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Main Authors: Qi Li, Tao Tong, Wei Jiang, Jianhui Cheng, Fenglin Deng, Xiaojian Wu, Zhong-Hua Chen, Younan Ouyang, Fanrong Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.761713/full