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SUBMITTER: Pena PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5371680 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peña Pamela A PA Quach Truyen T Sato Shirley S Ge Zhengxiang Z Nersesian Natalya N Changa Taity T Dweikat Ismail I Soundararajan Madhavan M Clemente Tom E TE
Frontiers in plant science 20170330
Nitrogen is essential for plant growth and development. Improving the ability of plants to acquire and assimilate nitrogen more efficiently is a key agronomic parameter that will augment sustainability in agriculture. A transcription factor approach was pursued to address improvement of nitrogen use efficiency in two major commodity crops. To this end, the <i>Zea mays</i> Dof1 (<i>ZmDof1</i>) transcription factor was expressed in both wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) and sorghum (<i>Sorghum bico ...[more]