The Barley Uniculme 4 Gene Encodes a BLADE-ON-PETIOLE-Like Protein That Controls Tillering and Leaf Patterning 1 [ OPEN ]

Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali-Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, 20133 Milan, Italy (E.T., G.V., A.Hu., L.R.); Department of Crop Production and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran (E.T.); Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics (R.O., H.B., G.J.M.) and Department of Plant Biology (G.J.M.), University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108; Parco Tecnologico Padano, 26900 Lodi, Italy (V.S.J., L.R.); Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (M.J.S., N.R.T.); Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521– 0124 (T.J.C.); James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom (A.D., R.W.); and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Stadt Seeland, Germany (B.S., R.A., A.Hi., N.S.)