Small molecules to help make SMARTER cereals
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 04:02
in Biology & Nature
Researchers are rethinking plant breeding strategies to improve the development of new high-yielding, stress-tolerant cereal varieties. They say small gene-regulating molecules found in plant cells (known as small RNA) are involved in stress adaptation, and they could be exploited to breed plants with favorable stress-tolerant traits.