The unprecedented wheat yield increases during the Green Revolution were achieved through introduction of Reduced height (Rht)-B1b and Rht-D1b semi-dwarfing alleles. These Rht-1 alleles encode growth-repressing DELLA genes containing a stop codon within their open reading frame that confers gibberellin (GA)-insensitive semi-dwarfism. In this study, we successfully took hurdle detecting wild-typ...

In the course of time a variety of names have been given to Sterne's 'dwarf apple-trees': primordial dwarfism (von Hansemann, 1902), ateliosis (Gilford, 1904, 1911), microsomie essentielle (Levi, 1910), nannosomia (or nanosomia) vera, constitutional, proportionate, genetic, and intra-uterine (Russell, 1954) dwarfism. Recently Seckel (1960) has shown that a distinct variety of low birth weight d...

Living with a visible physical disability—specifically dwarfism—brings situational, psychosocial, and cultural challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, its restrictions, amplifies these dwarfism-related complexities, exposing the politics of visibility exclusion, as well spatial injustices. This autoethnographic paper deliberates heightened disabling encounters in their various contextual layers—phys...