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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (24): 19-27.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0077

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Buckwheat Seed Shelling Characters: A Review

MA Guifang1,2(), XIN Haibo1, XIU Li3, SUN Chaoxia2, ZHANG Hua1()   

  1. 1Beijing Institute of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Key Laboratory of Greening Plants Breeding, Beijing 100102
    2Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong, Shanxi 030801
    3Comprehensive Law Enforcement Center for Urban and Rural Construction in Hunnan District, Shenyang 110000
  • Received:2022-02-05 Revised:2022-04-27 Online:2022-08-25 Published:2022-08-22
  • Contact: ZHANG Hua E-mail:1783526621@qq.com;seastory@163.com

Abstract:

Buckwheat has a wide range of adaptation and rich germplasm, and it is a medicinal and food crop. Its seeds have a high nutritional value. Buckwheat seeds are composed of embryos, endosperm and hulls. The hull is rich in lignin, cellulose and sugar, which makes it difficult to shell. This trait seriously restricts the development of the buckwheat processing industry. Therefore, cultivating germplasm resources which are easy to shell is one of the main objectives of buckwheat breeding. The formation and dehiscence of buckwheat hulls are regulated by both genetic and environmental factors. In order to fully understand the factors affecting buckwheat hull dehiscence, this study summarized the composition and cellular arrangement of different buckwheat hulls, generalized the function of enzymes in the process of seed hull dehiscence and the function of the waxy cuticle in the process of seed hull shedding, and analyzed the regulation of transcription factors on hull development. It also pointed out the main differences and relative key candidate genes in hull development and hull dehiscence traits between thin and thick hulled buckwheat seeds, which could provide an important theoretical basis for the cloning of key regulatory genes for dehiscence and efficient molecular design breeding.

Key words: buckwheat, seed shelling, cell wall degrading enzymes, cuticle, transcription factor

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