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Elucidation of the genetic basis of variation for stem strength characteristics in bread wheat by Associative Transcriptomics.
BMC genomics - 16 Jul 2016
Miller Charlotte N, Harper Andrea L, Trick Martin, Werner Peter, Waldron Keith, Bancroft Ian
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BACKGROUND: The current approach to reducing the tendency for wheat grown under high fertilizer conditions to collapse (lodge) under the weight of its grain is based on reducing stem height via the introduction of Rht genes. However, these reduce the yield of straw (itself an important commodity) and introduce other undesirable characteristics. Identification of alternative height-control loci is therefore of key...
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