ArticleThe Plant cell2022
KIL1 terminates fertility in maize by controlling silk senescence.
Article in The Plant cell, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Transcriptional signatures associated with female receptivity and longevity in genetically male-sterile wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The stunt of stunted silk: A novel pollination control mechanism in maize.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Stigma longevity is not a major limiting factor in hybrid wheat seed production.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
- KILing in the name of embryonic growth: KIL transcription factors drive cell death in the maize endosperm.The Plant cell · 2025Article
- Maize stigmas react differently to self- and cross-pollination and fungal invasion.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- Heat-stress-induced ROS in maize silks cause late pollen tube growth arrest and sterility.iScience · 2024Article
- NACs, generalist in plant life.Plant biotechnology journal · 2023Review
- From the floret to the canopy: High temperature tolerance during flowering.Plant communications · 2023Review
- A scalable phenotyping approach for female floral organ development and senescence in the absence of pollination in wheat.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Terminator: Maize KIL1 terminates fertility by inducing silk senescence.The Plant cell · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plant flowers have a functional life span during which pollination and fertilization occur to ensure seed and fruit development. Once flower senescence is initiated, the potential to set seed or fruit is irrevocably lost. In maize, silk strands are the elongated floral stigmas that emerge from the husk-enveloped inflorescence to intercept airborne pollen. Here we show that KIRA1-LIKE1 (KIL1), an ortholog of the Arabidopsis NAC (NAM (NO APICAL MERISTEM), ATAF1/2 (Arabidopsis thaliana Activation Factor1 and 2) and CUC (CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON 2)) transcription factor KIRA1, promotes senescence and programmed cell death (PCD) in the silk strand base, ending the window of accessibility for fertilization of the ovary. Loss of KIL1 function extends silk receptivity and thus strongly increases kernel yield following late pollination. This phenotype offers new opportunities for possibly improving yield stability in cereal crops. Moreover, despite diverging flower morphologies and the substantial evolutionary distance between Arabidopsis and maize, our data indicate remarkably similar principles in terminating floral receptivity by PCD, whose modulation offers the potential to be widely used in agriculture.
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