Shielding the oil reserves: the scutellum as a source of chemical defenses

Plant Physiol. 2022 Mar 28;188(4):1944-1949. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac038.

Katherine M Murphy¹, Elly Poretsky², Huijun Liu^{3

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5}, Nikola Micic^{4

5}, Annika Nyhuis⁶, Joerg Bohlmann⁷, Eric A Schmelz², Philipp Zerbe⁸, Alisa Huffaker², Nanna Bjarnholt^{4

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¹ Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132, USA.
² Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92161, USA.
³ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
⁴ Copenhagen Plant Science Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg 1871, Denmark.
⁵ Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen , Frederiksberg 1871, Denmark.
⁶ Bruker Daltonik GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen 28359, Germany.
⁷ Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁸ Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Abstract

The cereal scutellum is a hub for diverse specialized defense metabolism and pathway discovery.