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Networks of Seed Storage Protein Regulation in Cereals and Legumes at the Dawn of the Omics Era

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Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield

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The regulation of gene expression in the developing seed has received much attention due to its economic importance but also because it represents a paradigm for plant gene regulation. The wealth of information obtained on a few well-studied systems is potentially much more widely applicable. Recent findings have revealed the participation of functionally homologous transcription factors in the cereal endosperm and cotyledon of dicots, suggesting these two regulation networks are composed of conserved or related elements.

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Thompson, R.D., Verdier, J. (2012). Networks of Seed Storage Protein Regulation in Cereals and Legumes at the Dawn of the Omics Era. In: Agrawal, G., Rakwal, R. (eds) Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4749-4_11

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