Exploiting the potential of Brachypodium as model grass to improve breeding cereal crops

This proposal aims to open a new research line within the UH on Brachypodium genomics. The value of research on model plant species such as Brachypodium -the model genus for grasses and monocots for its extraordinary genomic features- is the ability to identify genes, regulatory networks, and co-variances among traits that will inform breeding strategies in cereal crops.