Towards second green revolution: engineering nitrogen use efficiency.

10.06.2014

Palme K, Li X, Teale WD.

J Genet Genomics. 2014;41(6):315-6.

J Genet Genomics.     online article

Nitrogen fertilizers applied by growers make agriculture the second largest industrial contributor to global greenhouse gases, far ahead of the transportation sector. Therefore crops are needed that require fewer applications of N fertilizer. DEFENSE AND ERECT PANICLE which regulates rice panicle architecture and which belongs to the class of heterotrimeric G-proteins well known in all mammalian species seems to present an elusive link in nutrient regulation of plant growth and development.