Growing drought-tolerant crops inching forward
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 03:00
in Biology & Nature
A collaborative team of scientists led by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, has used the tools of structural biology to understand how a synthetic chemical mimics abscisic acid (ABA), a key stress hormone that helps plants cope with adverse environmental conditions such as drought. The results are published online in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology in advance of print publication later...