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Rice Seed Development: Highly Resolved Transcriptomic Views

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

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Rice is an experimental model for monocot grain crop biology. Its seeds provide a major portion of the diets of many human cultures. Recently, microarray and RNA-sequencing methods have produced highly resolved genome-wide inventories of RNA transcripts present in cell types and regions of rice seeds, including the development of embryo and endosperm tissues and the changes that accompany germination. This chapter describes these rice seed transcriptome inventories and highlights the novel biological insights that they provide regarding the regional specialization of biological processes in endosperm and embryo. The spatial and temporal patterns of expressed genes support some of the anatomical homologies that have long been proposed for regions of the monocot embryo and endosperm.

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Work on the Rice Atlas transcriptome project was supported by US National Science Foundation Plant Genome Program grant DBI-0325821 to TN. The Rice Atlas data cited in this chapter is tabulated for browsing at http://plantgenomics.biology.yale.edu/riceatlas/.

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Liu, T., Tausta, S., Gandotra, N., Nelson, T. (2012). Rice Seed Development: Highly Resolved Transcriptomic Views. 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_4

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