9 December 2025
Kumari Billakurthi - Plant Physiology, 2025
Rice (Oryza sativa) serves as a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, contributing over 20% of the world’s caloric intake. Enhancing rice yield is therefore crucial to ensuring food security, especially in the face of global climate change. Grain size is one of the key agronomic traits that determine crop yield. Organ growth, whether in plants or animals, is a fundamental biological process, governed by cell division and differentiation processes. For instance, do you know why tomatoes we get in the supermarket are much bigger than their wild varieties? The secret is the FRUIT WEIGHT2.2 (FW2.2) gene.
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