Unleashing floret fertility by a mutated homeobox gene improved grain yield during wheat evolution under domestication
S. Sakuma, G. Golan, Z. Guo, T. Ogawa, A. Tagiri, K. Sugimoto, N. Bernhardt, J. Brassac, M. Mascher, G. Hensel, S. Ohnishi, H. Jinno, Y. Yamashita, I. Ayalon, Z. Peleg, , T. Komatsuda
This study identifies GNI1, a homeobox gene whose mutations increased floret fertility and grain yield in wheat during domestication.
bioRxiv · Oct 4, 2018Plant Biology