Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)
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Is Plasticity a Good Thing?
One of the things that's happened n domestication is wo reduce plasticity, right? But it also seems like ving its reall intresting from a kind of fundamental biological perspective too. Because you'd like to choose traits that are plastic in the appropriate way across a range of ents. There's actually this debate in the community on the extent to which you want to try to think about plasticity as something to put in. The problem is usually and with the loss of some yield, even at good years. We're not going to find one or two geans that are important for drought response. In fact, for of trying, we still don't have a gean
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