{"id":72,"date":"2014-10-03T07:40:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/bacasable\/2014\/10\/03\/better-wheat-by-selecting-roots\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:40:41","slug":"better-wheat-by-selecting-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2014\/10\/03\/better-wheat-by-selecting-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Better wheat by selecting roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p>Wheat has been improved by breeding for about 200 years. However this breeding selection has been done classically, that is by favouring aerial plants parts such as higher shoots, larger leaves and heavier seeds. Improving the root system may also benefit wheat, but no method is available so far. Agronomists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-014-0227-4\" target=\"_blank\">He\u0159mansk\u00e1 et al.<\/a> have designed a method based on electrical capacitance to measure the size of the root matrix. Their found that wheat selection based on root size increases grain yield.<\/p>\n<div class=\"altmetric-embed\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheat has been improved by breeding for about 200 years. However this breeding selection has been done classically, that is by favouring aerial plants parts such as higher shoots, larger leaves and heavier seeds. Improving the root system may also benefit wheat, but no method is available so far. Agronomists He\u0159mansk\u00e1 et al. have designed &#8230; <a title=\"Better wheat by selecting roots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2014\/10\/03\/better-wheat-by-selecting-roots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Better wheat by selecting roots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-production-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}