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This research investigates the genetic basis for the transition from two-rowed to six-rowed barley, which significantly enhances grain yield. By analyzing gene expression and developing transgenic plants, the project aims to uncover the mechanisms behind this important agricultural trait.
The ancestral form of cultivated barley produces two rows of grain along the grain bearing 'spike'.
However, types with six rows of grain emerged soon after the domestication of the species and quickly became the dominant form in primitive agricultural systems.
This morphological and developmental switch is generally accepted to result from recessive mutations in a single gene called SIX-ROWED SPIKE 1 (VRS1).
However alleles at several other SIX-ROWED SPIKE genes have since been identified an…
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