JIC Scientist Investigates Wheat's Flowering Time to Combat Climate Change
February 3, 2012| |
John Innes Center scientist, Dr. Simon Griffiths, received research funds amounting to about £500,000 from the European Commission to seek ways by which wheat can be adapted to survive climate change. The project will focus on flowering time and investigate how differences could be used to produce crops adapted to future effects of climate change.
Flowering time is a significant determinant in overall crop yield. It is affected by the crops' genetic makeup as well as the environmental conditions. Therefore, Griffiths' project Adaptawheat aims to examine how genetic differences in wheat could contribute to alterations in flowering time and other developmental processes, and evaluate its effects in overall yield. Genetic, developmental, and yield differences will be assessed in wheat planted on different locations in Europe and other continents, which have varying climate conditions.
Read the original article at http://news.jic.ac.uk/2012/01/adaptawheat/. Know more about Adaptawheat at http://ec.europa.eu/research/bioeconomy/agriculture/projects/adaptawheat_en.htm.
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