El gen ERECTA regula la eficiencia de la transpiración de las plantas en la Arabidopsis

Josette Masle1, Scott R Gilmore, Graham D Farquhar

  • 1Environmental Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. josette.masle@anu.edu.au

Nature
|July 12, 2005
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos identificaron el gen ERECTA, un regulador clave de la eficiencia de la transpiración de las plantas. Este descubrimiento ayuda a mejorar el rendimiento de los cultivos y la supervivencia en regiones con escasez de agua mediante la comprensión de los controles genéticos del uso del agua.

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