Growing drought-tolerant crops inching forward

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 15:07 in Biology & Nature

A team of scientists 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.

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