Lead author of the ROAD1 paper
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Researcher at Huazhong Agricultural University
Breeders have spent decades looking for drought-tolerance genes that don't cost yield in normal years. Most candidates fail half the test. Rice lines carrying a newly described gene, ROAD1, yielded up to 34.75% more grain under field drought with no growth penalty when conditions were normal.
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