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High-throughput sequencing and mutagenesis to accelerate the domestication of Microlaena stipoides as a new food crop.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Shapter Frances M, Cross Michael, Ablett Gary, Malory Sylvia, Chivers Ian H, King Graham J, Henry Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Global food demand, climatic variability and reduced land availability are driving the need for domestication of new crop species. The accelerated domestication of a rice-like Australian dryland polyploid grass, Microlaena stipoides (Poaceae), was targeted using chemical mutagenesis in conjunction with high throughput sequencing of genes for key domestication traits. While M. stipoides has previously been...
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