Improving water-use efficiency in wheat by modulating leaf structure

通过调节叶片结构提高小麦水分利用效率

• 批准号: 2449852
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2449852
• 关键词: Improving; water; use; efficiency; wheat

Wheat provides 29% of calories consumed worldwide and is a major UK crop. Reflecting increased pressure on a finite resource, improving water. Reflecting increased pressure on a finite resource, improving water-use efficiency is a major objective in wheat breeding (1). As a result of a previous CASE studentship, we have evidence that during breeding/evolution there has been a selection for leaf cells which have increased size and altered shape, and that this is linked to improved water-use efficiency (WUE) in modern wheat (2). The aim of this project is to test this hypothesis and to provide the CASE partner with novel traits as targets for breeding wheat with improved WUE.

小麦提供了全球29%的热量消耗，是英国的主要作物。反映了有限资源的压力增加，改善了水资源。提高水分利用效率是小麦育种的主要目标，反映了有限资源面临的压力增加(1)。作为之前的CASE研究的结果，我们有证据表明，在育种/进化过程中，叶子细胞的大小和形状发生了变化，这与现代小麦的水利用效率（WUE）的提高有关(2)。该项目的目的是验证这一假设，并为CASE合作伙伴提供新的性状作为培育提高水分利用效率的小麦的目标。