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Editorial
. 2020 Nov;32(11):3378-3379.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00667. Epub 2020 Sep 3.

Gains in Grain Yield: A Pair of Spikelets Makes All the Difference, Even When One Is Sterile

Josh Strable  1
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Gains in Grain Yield: A Pair of Spikelets Makes All the Difference, Even When One Is Sterile

Josh Strable. Plant Cell. 2020 Nov.
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Detachment of the Sterile Pedicellate Spikelet Reduces Yield and Fitness. Removal of the sterile PS reduces grain weight in the fertile SS, represented in box and whisker plots as combined average weight for four sorghum genotypes. (Adapted from AuBuchon-Elder et al. [2020], Figure 7.)
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