Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields

Plants can produce different phenotypes when exposed to different environments. Understanding the genetic basis of these plastic responses is crucial for crop breeding efforts. We discuss two recent studies that suggest that yield plasticity in maize has been under selection but is controlled by dif...

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Autores principales: Kusmec, Aaron, de Leon, Natalia, Schnable, Patrick S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Plant Science
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6156439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283485
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01377
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spelling pubmed-61564392018-10-03 Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields Kusmec, Aaron de Leon, Natalia Schnable, Patrick S. Front Plant Sci Plant Science Plants can produce different phenotypes when exposed to different environments. Understanding the genetic basis of these plastic responses is crucial for crop breeding efforts. We discuss two recent studies that suggest that yield plasticity in maize has been under selection but is controlled by different genes than yield. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6156439/ /pubmed/30283485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01377 Text en Copyright © 2018 Kusmec, de Leon and Schnable. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields
title Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields
title_full Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields
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title_short Harnessing Phenotypic Plasticity to Improve Maize Yields
title_sort harnessing phenotypic plasticity to improve maize yields
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6156439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283485
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