A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in
Molecular Plant Science, together with multiple domestic universities,
identified a high-protein gene, THP3-T, from wild maize and introduced it to
raise protein content significantly in China’s main commercial maize varieties.
The trait could reduce soybean-meal demand in livestock and poultry feed, lower
China’s soybean import dependence and bolster feed-supply security; the study
was published in Nature on June 3.
