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Julian I Schroeder1, Emmanuel Delhaize, Wolf B Frommer

  • 1Division of Biological Sciences, Food and Fuel for the 21st Century Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0116, USA. jischroeder@ucsd.edu

Nature
|May 3, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

植物膜輸送機は,作物の収穫量と栄養価を向上させ,世界の食糧需要を満たすための持続可能な解決策を提供します. これらの特殊なタンパク質は,環境的ストレスに対する作物の回復力を向上させ,耕作可能な土地を増やす可能性があります.

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