Key gene for toxic alkaloid in barley discovered

Researchers have laid the foundation for improving barley

04-Apr-2024 - Barley is one of the most important cereal crops on a global scale. Many barley cultivars produce a toxic alkaloid called gramine that affects the suitability of barley as fodder, but also helps to protect barley from pathogens. So far, the potential of manipulating gramine levels has not been ...

How does the social behavior of wheat plants affect grain production?

08-Sep-2023 - Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have investigated how the behavior of a single wheat plant under limiting light conditions affects the performance of the entire community. They evaluated morphological and biomass phenotypes of individual plants grown in mixtures under sunlight and ...

Communication between Wheat Genes Contributes to Increasing Crop Productivity

20-Oct-2017 - Heterosis describes the situation where the performance of a hybrid progeny exceeds that of its parents. A research team at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) has demonstrated for wheat that the phenomenon is primarily dependent on interactions between genes. ...