We Thought the Yield of Wheat Blocked by the Plant Itself: a Gene Sleeping for Millennia Can Triple the Harvest without One More Hectare

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What if the solution to the global food crisis has already been sleeping in our wheat for millennia? Researchers at the University of Maryland have come to identify a gene capable of multiplying cereal production by three, without requiring more land, water or fertilizer. This genetic discovery, which is based on a rare natural mutation, [...]