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Arabidopsis has provided significant insights into the molecular workings of plants. Agriculturally aligned model grasses can be used to bridge the gap between this basic understanding of plant biology and real world challenges.

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Figure 1: Emerging model systems for the grasses.
Figure 2: New model mutants.

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  1. Thomas P. Brutnell is at the Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA,

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  2. The Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China and Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural biotech company focused on improving yield in crop plants through enhancing photosynthetic efficiencies.,

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Brutnell, T. Model grasses hold key to crop improvement. Nature Plants 1, 15062 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.62

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