| 摘 要： | A group of Chinese plant ge-neticists recently succeededin ferreting out a functionalgene responsible for rice tillering,demystifying a long-standing puzzlein crop growth.Tillering is a special branchingprocess in a cereal crops earlygrowth in which numerous shootsput forth almost at the same timefrom the main stem. The crop yield,when harvested afterwards, is al-ways hinged on the number of thesprouting shoots. So the process be-comes an agronomic trait of vital im-portance in the production …
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