Big news from RegenPGC PostDoc researcher Memiş Bilgici and his writing team regarding their latest publication:
“To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine how shade avoidance responses have changed over the past 100 years of maize breeding. Low red/far-red ratio light induced shade avoidance responses in maize seedlings. Seedling plant height increased, while stem diameter decreased under low R/FR conditions. Maize hybrids released from 1920 to 2022 differed in key physiological traits. Long term-breeding of maize affected leaf area, root length, SPAD index, and stomatal traits”
The article is available in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.
Bilgici, Memis, Lira, Sara, Borras, Lucas, Ebrahimi Elnaz, Moore, Kenneth J., Raman, D. Raj, & Lübberstedt, Thomas. (2026). Shade avoidance responses in seedlings of maize hybrids representing 100 years of breeding history. Front. Plant Sci., 17- 2026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2026.1939000