{"id":437144,"date":"2018-02-07T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=73c53ae32d788313289954e3be4e746f"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:28:33","slug":"a-genetic-trigger-adds-branches-to-plants-could-boost-crop-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=437144","title":{"rendered":"A genetic trigger adds branches to plants, could boost crop yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to agriculture from branched plants, such as apple trees, the more branches that bear fruit, the better. But in the real world, there&#8217;s a limit to the number of branches that plants make\u2014a gene tends to put the brakes on this splitting process called shoot branching. Today in ACS Central Science, researchers reveal a chemical that can reverse this limitation, possibly leading to improved crop production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to agriculture from branched plants, such as apple trees, the more branches that bear fruit, the better. But in the real world, there&#8217;s a limit to the number of branches that plants make&mdash;a gene tends to put the brakes on this splitting process called shoot branching. Today in ACS Central Science, researchers reveal a chemical that can reverse this limitation, possibly leading to improved crop production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437145,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437144\/revisions\/437145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}