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The 2020 derecho revealed limited overlap between maize genes associated with root lodging and root system architecture.
Plant physiology - 3 Jul 2023
Zheng Zihao, Guo Bufei, Dutta Somak, Roy Vivekananda, Liu Huyu, Schnable Patrick S
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Roots anchor plants in soil, and the failure of anchorage (i.e. root lodging) is a major cause of crop yield loss. Anchorage is often assumed to be driven by root system architecture (RSA). We made use of a natural experiment to measure the overlap between the genetic regulation of RSA and anchorage. After one of the most devastating derechos ever recorded in August 2020, we phenotyped root lodging in a maize...
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