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SUBMITTER: Wang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4836682 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Daofeng D Qin Yanling Y Fang Jingjing J Yuan Shoujiang S Peng Lixiang L Zhao Jinfeng J Li Xueyong X
PloS one 20160419 4
Rice is a model plant species for the study of cellulose biosynthesis. We isolated a mutant, S1-24, from ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-treated plants of the japonica rice cultivar, Nipponbare. The mutant exhibited brittle culms and other pleiotropic phenotypes such as dwarfism and partial sterility. The brittle culms resulted from reduced mechanical strength due to a defect in thickening of the sclerenchyma cell wall and reduced cellulose content in the culms of the S1-24 mutant. Map-based gene c ...[more]