Expanding wheat yields with expansin

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Daniel J Cosgrove. New Phytol. 2021 Apr.

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. 2021 Apr;230(2):403-405.

doi: 10.1111/nph.17245. Epub 2021 Mar 2.

¹ Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.

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Keywords: cell wall expansion; endosperm; expansin proteins; grain number; grain weight; transgenic; wall loosening; wheat yield.

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Overcoming the trade-off between grain weight and number in wheat by the ectopic expression of expansin in developing seeds leads to increased yield potential.
Calderini DF, Castillo FM, Arenas-M A, Molero G, Reynolds MP, Craze M, Bowden S, Milner MJ, Wallington EJ, Dowle A, Gomez LD, McQueen-Mason SJ. Calderini DF, et al. New Phytol. 2021 Apr;230(2):629-640. doi: 10.1111/nph.17048. Epub 2020 Dec 4. New Phytol. 2021. PMID: 33124693 Free PMC article.

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