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Tag - Setaria viridis
Juniper Kiss
Development in embryonic leaves of Setaria viridis
Setaria viridis is being promoted as a model C4 photosynthetic plant because it has a small genome (~515Mb), a short life cycle (~60d) and it can be transformed. Unlike other C4 grasses such as maize, however, there is...
Alex Assiry
A nod in the right direction?
Congratulations are in order to the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) for its recent award of nearly US$10m ‘to test the feasibility of developing cereal crops capable of fixing nitrogen as an environmentally-sustainable...
Nigel Chaffey