Seeds are a major source of nutrients for humans and animal livestock worldwide. With
improved living standards, high nutritional quality has become one of the main targets for …

Lysine and tryptophan are two essential amino acids and these are deficit in maize grain
thus posing the problem of nutritional deficiencies in the consumers. A wide range of …

Maize (Zea mays) endosperm is a primary tissue for nutrient storage and is highly
differentiated during development. However, the regulatory networks of endosperm …

Abstract Maize (Zea mays) floury3 (fl3) is a classic semidominant negative mutant that
exhibits severe defects in the endosperm but fl3 plants otherwise appear normal. We cloned …

The mechanism that creates vitreous endosperm in the mature maize kernel is poorly
understood. We identified Vitreous endosperm 1 (Ven1) as a major QTL influencing this …

Maize (Zea mays) is a leading cereal crop in the world. The maize kernel is the storage
organ and the harvest portion of this crop and is closely related to its yield and quality. The …

Prolamin storage proteins are the main repository for nitrogen in the endosperm of cereal
seeds. These stable proteins accumulate at massive levels due to the high level expression …

Myosins are encoded by multigene families and are involved in many basic biological
processes. However, their functions in plants remain poorly understood. Here, we report the …

Key message We review the current knowledge regarding the regulation of zein storage
proteins biosynthesis and protein body formation, which are crucial processes for the …

The organic acid oxalate occurs in microbes, animals, and plants; however, excessive
oxalate accumulation in vivo is toxic to cell growth and decreases the nutritional quality of …