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Link Between Vitamin C and Twin Seedlings Can Increase Seed Production in Crops
ScienceDaily.com reports on an article at www.plosone.org that says that biochemists at the University of California, Riverside report a new role for vitamin C in plants: promoting the production of twins and even triplets in plant seeds.
Daniel R. Gallie, a professor of biochemistry, and Zhong Chen, an associate research biochemist in the Department of Biochemistry, found that increasing the level of dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), a naturally occurring enzyme that recycles vitamin C in plants and animals, increases the level of the vitamin and results in the production of twin and triplet seedlings in a single seed.
The value of the discovery lies in the potential to produce genetically identical seedlings and increase production of high-value crops.
Study results appear in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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Daniel R. Gallie, a professor of biochemistry, and Zhong Chen, an associate research biochemist in the Department of Biochemistry, found that increasing the level of dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), a naturally occurring enzyme that recycles vitamin C in plants and animals, increases the level of the vitamin and results in the production of twin and triplet seedlings in a single seed.
The value of the discovery lies in the potential to produce genetically identical seedlings and increase production of high-value crops.
Study results appear in the online journal PLoS ONE.
back to overview