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Title: New avenues for increasing yield and stability in C3 cereals: exploring ear photosynthesis
Author: Sánchez Bragado, Rut
Vicente García, Rubén, 1978-
Molero Milán, Gemma
Serret Molins, M. Dolors
Luján, María
Araus Ortega, José Luis
Keywords: Cereals (Aliment)
Transformació genètica
Conreu
Grain (feed)
Genetic transformation
Crops
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Small grain cereals such as wheat, rice and barley are among the most important crops worldwide. Any attempt to increase crop productivity and stability through breeding implies developing new strategies for plant phenotyping, including defining ideotype attributes for selection. Recently, the role of non-foliar photosynthetic organs, particularly the inflorescences, has received increasing attention. For example, ear photosynthesis has been reported to be a major contributor to grain filling in wheat and barley under stress and good agronomic conditions. This review provides an overview of the particular characteristics of the ear that makes this photosynthetic organ better adapted to grain filling than the flag leaf and revises potential metabolic and molecular traits that merit further research as targets for cereal improvement. Currently, the absence of high-throughput phenotyping methods limits the inclusion of ear photosynthesis in the breeding agenda. In this regard, a number of different approaches are presented.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.001
It is part of: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2019
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/159424
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.001
ISSN: 1369-5266
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals)

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