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Wheat yields: Doubling-up on grain numbers

Modulating the expression of two flowering-genes can be used to produce wheat spikes with modified spikelet arrangement and higher grain number.

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Figure 1: Wheat spikes with different spikelet arrangements.

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Sarhan, F. Wheat yields: Doubling-up on grain numbers. Nature Plants 1, 15003 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.3

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