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. 2022 May 10;13:876198. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.876198

FIGURE 5.

FIGURE 5

Spatio-temporal depiction of the rate of endosperm cell division in two lax-panicle rice cultivars, Upahar and Lalat, and two compact-panicle rice cultivars, Mahalaxmi and OR-1918. The peak of the endosperm cell division rate in the apical spikelets reaches earlier in the lax-panicle cultivars compared with compact-panicle cultivars, and in the basal spikelets, the arrival of the peak is delayed greatly in the compact-panicle cultivars compared with the lax-panicle cultivars. The cessation of the endosperm cell division in the basal spikelets of the compact-panicle cultivars is also delayed greatly, almost 3 days, when compared with that of the lax-panicle cultivars, leading to poor grain filling in the former. Reproduced with the permission of the author (Sahu et al., 2021).