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Peng Yu1,2, Chunhui Li3, Meng Li4

  • 1Crop Functional Genomics, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. yupeng@uni-bonn.de.

Nature genetics
|May 22, 2024
PubMed
概括

玉米的根系在化和适应过程中进化,种子根数根据环境而变化. 这项研究确定了影响玉米干旱弹性至关重要的根性特征的基因.

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