Rewiring sugar signaling for global agriculture: A decade of progress in harnessing the T6P pathway
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Rewiring sugar signaling for global agriculture: A decade of progress in harnessing the T6P pathway
While sugar signaling plays a crucial role in grain filling and ultimately determines grain crop yield, direct genetic manipulation often results in pleiotropic effects and raises legislative…
Cracking the code of rice grain quality under heat stress
Plant Science Research WeeklyRice is one of the most important food crops globally, providing more than 20% of the world’s calorie intake and over 75% for the population in Asia. Therefore, apart from yield, grain quality is another critical agronomic trait for breeding and improvement, especially under stressful environmental…
Improving bread wheat yield through modulating an unselected AP2/ERF gene (Nature Plants)
Plant Science Research WeeklyClimate emergency and the increase of human population are challenges for human food security. Plant breeders use natural genetic variation to improve crops, but bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has particularly low genetic diversity with unique evolutionary constraints. Genetic modification of spike…