<p>Sally Mackenzie of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the U.S. will establish a strategy to exploit crop phenotype variations that are controlled by epigenetic changes for breeding. The strategy is to disrupt the MSH1 gene in millet and maize, releasing a large amount of variation derived from heritable epigenetic changes that can be used to select for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.</p>


Sally Mackenzie of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the U.S. will establish a strategy to exploit crop phenotype variations that are controlled by epigenetic changes for breeding. The strategy is to disrupt the MSH1 gene in millet and maize, releasing a large amount of variation derived from heritable epigenetic changes that can be used to select for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.