New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Dec. 26, 2024
Summary Grasses are fundamental to human survival, providing a large percentage of our calories, fuel, and fodder for livestock, an enormous global carbon sink. A particularly important part the grass plant is grain‐producing inflorescence that develops in response both internal external signals converge at shoot tip influence meristem behavior. Abiotic trigger reproductive development vary across family, mostly due unique ecological phylogenetic histories each clade. The time it takes flower has implications its ability escape harsh environments, while also indirectly affecting abiotic stress tolerance, architecture, grain yield. Here, we synthesize recent insights into evolution flowering past climate change, focusing on genetic convergence underlying traits. We then discuss how why rewiring shared ancestral pathway affects yields, outline ways which researchers using this other information breed higher yielding, climate‐proof cereal crops.
Language: Английский