Dixon, LE orcid.org/0000-0002-8234-3407, van Esse, W, Hirsz, D et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Cereal Architecture and Its Manipulation. Annual Plant Reviews Online, 5 (1). ISSN 2639-3832
Abstract
Our lives depend on an incredibly small number of cereal species whose grain provides more calories to our diet than any other source. The extraordinary productivity of cultivated cereals reflects millennia of selection, recent directed breeding, and modern agricultural practices. Here, we examine selected architectural and agronomic features of major cereal body parts: leaf, branch, inflorescence, stem, and root; and discuss how their manipulation enhanced crop performance. Highlighting synergistic research across laboratory models and field-based systems, we consider how diversified molecular circuitry, novel regulators and conserved components of genetic, hormonal, and molecular mechanisms control cereal architecture. Lastly, we emphasise the agricultural importance of developmental decisions during cereal growth and propose future perspectives for robust architectural improvement, made ever more urgent by our accelerating climate crisis.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dixon, L.E., van Esse, W., Hirsz, D., Willemsen, V. and McKim, S.M. (2022). Cereal Architecture and Its Manipulation. In Annual Plant Reviews online, J.A. Roberts (Ed.), which has been published in final form at 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0648. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
Keywords: | cereal; development; plant architecture; agriculture; genetic selection |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2022 13:37 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0648 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:186736 |