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Tunable plastic development

Nature Reviews Genetics volume 14, page 746 (2013)Cite this article

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Plant development is highly plastic; that is, it can be extensively adjusted to different environments. These authors investigated whether the traits involved in this plasticity are controlled coordinately or independently. Specifically, they looked at plastic responses of Arabidopsis thaliana roots to two different nitrogen environments and used both genome-wide association mapping and gene expression analysis to identify the contributing genes. Their findings support the independent control of plastic traits, an insight that could be put to use in developing more robust crops.

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  1. Gifford, M. L. et al. Plasticity regulators modulate specific root traits in discrete nitrogen environments. PLoS Genet. 9, e1003760 (2013)

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  1. Louisa Flintoft
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Flintoft, L. Tunable plastic development. Nat Rev Genet 14, 746 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3608

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