bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.30.228510; this version posted July 30, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 INTERMEDIUM-C mediates the shade-induced bud growth arrest in barley 2 3 Hongwen Wang1,2,*, Christiane Seiler2, Nese Sreenivasulu3, Nicolaus von Wirén1,* and Markus 4 Kuhlmann2,* 5 6 1Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant 7 Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany 8 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) 9 Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany 10 3International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Grain Quality and Nutrition Center, Metro Manila, 11 Philippines 12 13 Running title: Genetic control of shade-induced bud growth arrest 14 15 Correspondence to: Hongwen Wang (email:
[email protected]), Nicolaus von 16 Wirén (email:
[email protected]) and Markus Kuhlmann (email: Kuhlmann@ipk- 17 gatersleben.de) 18 19 Tel: +49-0394825-172 or +49-0394825-602 20 Fax: +49-0394825-550 21 Department of Molecular Genetics & 22 Department of Physiology and Cell Biology 23 Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) 24 Gatersleben, Corrensstrasse 3 25 06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany 26 27 28 The authors responsible for the distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in 29 this article in accordance with the policy described in the instructions for authors are 30 Hongwen Wang (
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