Retreat of catabolites of filaments,lodicules,and stigma cells in rice

The lodicules expand rapidly when the rice florets are opening, and the filaments elongate and the stigmas extend and bend. All these growing movements are caused by the cell elongation or expansion after water absorption. The lodicules, filaments, and stigma will wither after flowering, but the cause of the withering remains unknown. In some wild abortive male sterile lines, the closing of florets