Drought Resistance Explained: Protein Structure Reveals How Plants Respond To Water Shortages
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 03:28
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have discovered that the key to plants' responses to drought lies in the structure of a protein called PYR1 and how it interacts with the plant hormone abscisic acid. Their study could open up new approaches to increasing crops' resistance to water shortage.