date:Feb 02, 2016
garded as valuable genetic resources for improving wheat disease resistance.
Our research suggests that they can also be used to improve biomass production.
Dr Anneke Prins and Dr Doug Orr are research associates at the university who conducted the experiment that was jointly funded by CIMMYT and by a subcontract to the University of Illinois, under the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation award Realising Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE).
Orr said: As part of the RIPE project we are sc