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Unlocking designer roots for future cereal crops
- March 31, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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A plant signaling gene has been identified as a promising target for breeding cereal crops to produce a steeper, narrower root system architecture, but with associated yield penalties in barley. University of Queensland Ph.D. candidate Richard Dixon said collaborative research with scientists at the Australian National University revealed the gene, known as CEPR1, has a conserved function across multiple grain crops.
Originally published at Phys.org