After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 101, No. 42 (Oct. 19, 2004), pp. 15249-15254 (6 pages) Acidity is a serious limitation to plant production on many ...
Fructans are water-soluble fructose oligomers and polymers that are based on sucrose, and have been implicated in protecting plants against water stress. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is highly sensitive to ...
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