Plant Scientists at CSHL Demonstrate New Means of Boosting Maize Yields

"Our simple hypothesis was that an increase in the size of the inflorescence meristem - the stem-cell reservoir that gives rise to flowers and ultimately, after pollination, seeds - will provide more physical space for the development of the structures that mature into kernels." Called corn by most people in North America, modern variants of the ... (more)

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