Cereal blueprints for a water-limited world

该项目旨在证明谷物中的关键发育基因可以被操纵来设计特定资源有限环境下的植物结构。用更少的水生产更多的食物是当今人类面临的最大挑战之一。该项目希望通过加速基因组编辑方法，增进对如何将茎和根系统解耦以增强作物在缺水环境中的适应性的理解。该项目的一个预期成果是增强干旱世界谷物的干旱适应能力。这将为澳大利亚和世界各地的农民和消费者带来重大利益。

This project aims to demonstrate that key developmental genes in cereals can be manipulated to design plant architecture for specific resource-limited environments. Producing more food with less water is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. This project expects to increase understanding of how shoot and root systems can be uncoupled to enhance crop adaptation in water-limited environments using an accelerated genome editing approach. An expected outcome of the project is enhanced drought adaptation for cereals in a dry world. This should provide significant benefits to farmers and consumers in Australia and worldwide.