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Multitrait engineering of Hassawi red rice for sustainable cultivation.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Apr 2024
Sedeek Khalid, Mohammed Nahed, Zhou Yong, Zuccolo Andrea, Sanikommu Krishnaveni, Kantharajappa Sunitha, Al-Bader Noor, Tashkandi Manal, Wing Rod A, Mahfouz Magdy M
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Sustainable agriculture requires locally adapted varieties that produce nutritious food with limited agricultural inputs. Genome engineering represents a viable approach to develop cultivars that fulfill these criteria. For example, the red Hassawi rice, a native landrace of Saudi Arabia, tolerates local drought and high-salinity conditions and produces grain with diverse health-promoting phytochemicals. However,...
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