The contribution of wheat to human diet and health

PR Shewry, SJ Hey - Food and energy security, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat is the most important staple crop in temperate zones and is in increasing demand in
countries undergoing urbanization and industrialization. In addition to being a major source …

Cereal seed storage proteins: structures, properties and role in grain utilization

PR Shewry, NG Halford - Journal of experimental botany, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Storage proteins account for about 50% of the total protein in mature cereal grains and have
important impacts on their nutritional quality for humans and livestock and on their functional …

The endosperm-specific transcription factor TaNAC019 regulates glutenin and starch accumulation and its elite allele improves wheat grain quality

Y Gao, K An, W Guo, Y Chen, R Zhang, X Zhang… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), breeding efforts have focused intensively on improving grain
yield and quality. For quality, the content and composition of seed storage proteins (SSPs) …

Cereal endosperms: development and storage product accumulation

J Liu, MW Wu, CM Liu - Annual review of plant biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The persistent triploid endosperms of cereal crops are the most important source of human
food and animal feed. The development of cereal endosperms progresses through …

Molecular and biochemical impacts of environmental factors on wheat grain development and protein synthesis

FM DuPont, SB Altenbach - Journal of cereal science, 2003 - Elsevier
Wheat grain yield and flour quality are strongly influenced by the effects of environment
during grain fill. Environmental variables such as temperature, water and fertilizer influence …

The low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits of wheat gluten

R D'Ovidio, S Masci - Journal of cereal science, 2004 - Elsevier
Low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS) are polymeric protein components of
wheat endosperm and like all seed storage proteins, are digested to provide nutrients for the …

The Dof family of plant transcription factors

S Yanagisawa - Trends in plant science, 2002 - cell.com
Dof proteins are members of a major family of plant transcription factors. The proteins have
similar DNA-binding properties because of the highly conserved DNA-binding domain …

Underlying biochemical and molecular mechanisms for seed germination

MA Farooq, W Ma, S Shen, A Gu - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the burgeoning population of the world, the successful germination of seeds to achieve
maximum crop production is very important. Seed germination is a precise balance of …

Genetics of wheat gluten proteins

PR Shewry, NG Halford, D Lafiandra - Advances in genetics, 2003 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on genetic studies related to wheat gluten protein.
The importance of wheat in food processing and human nutrition has resulted in a massive …

A maize zinc-finger protein binds the prolamin box in zein gene promoters and interacts with the basic leucine zipper transcriptional activator Opaque2

J Vicente-Carbajosa, SP Moose… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
The prolamin box (P-box) is a highly conserved 7-bp sequence element (5′-TGTAAAG-
3′) found in the promoters of many cereal seed storage protein genes. Nuclear factors from …