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  • Pineapple genome offers insight into photosynthesis in drought-tolerant plants

    Nov 2, 2015 10:15 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of plant biology professor Ray Ming, by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • image of plant biology professor Ray Ming, by L. Brian Stauffer

    “Drought is responsible for the majority of global crop loss, so understanding the mechanisms that plants have evolved to survive water stress is vital for engineering drought tolerance in crop species.”