title: New ways to gather grains.
abstract: A crucial step in cereal grass domestication is acquisition of seed retention in the inflorescence/seed head for efficient harvesting. Reporting in Nature Genetics, Ishii and colleagues (2013) show that a change in inflorescence architecture is sufficient to increase seed retention, providing an alternative pathway toward cereal grass domestication.
authors: Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. andrew.doust@okstate.edu
authors: Andrew N
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authors: Doust