Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Rice Plant Development: from Zygote to Spikelet

2005; Oxford University Press; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/pcp/pci501

1471-9053

Jun-Ichi Itoh, Ken–Ichi Nonomura, Kyoko Ikeda, Shinichiro Yamaki, Yoshiaki Inukai, Hiroshi Yamagishi, Hidemi Kitano, Yasuo Nagato,

Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Rice is becoming a model plant in monocotyledons and a model cereal crop. For better understanding of the rice plant, it is essential to elucidate the developmental programs of the life cycle. To date, several attempts have been made in rice to categorize the developmental processes of some organs into substages. These studies are based exclusively on the morphological and anatomical viewpoints. Recent advancement in genetics and molecular biology has given us new aspects of developmental processes. In this review, we first describe the phasic development of the rice plant, and then describe in detail the developmental courses of major organs, leaf, root and spikelet, and specific organs/tissues. Also, for the facility of future studies, we propose a staging system for each organ.