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. 1986 Mar;80(3):609–611. doi: 10.1104/pp.80.3.609

Sugar Utilization by Developing Wild Type and Shrunken-2 Maize Kernels 1

B Greg Cobb 1,2, L Curtis Hannah 1
PMCID: PMC1075169  PMID: 16664671

Abstract

To characterize the movement of sugars during kernel development in maize, a newly devised in vitro kernel development scheme was utilized. Viable seeds of wild type maize (Zea mays L.) as well as the mutant shrunken-2 (sh2) were found to mature when grown in culture with reducing sugars or sucrose as the carbon source. However, wild type and sh2 kernels had greater germination, starch content, and seed weight when sucrose, rather than reducing sugars, was the carbon source. By the use of labeled sucrose it was shown that sucrose can move into endosperm tissue without intervening degradation and resynthesis. These results show that when grown in vitro the maize seed can utilize reducing sugars for development, but it prefers sucrose.

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