Transgenic Tomatoes Resistant to Drought
Filed in archive Food and Agriculture by ruth on December 16, 2005
The authors of the study, whose work is supposedly published this week at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (unfortuntely, I can't trace the article) are optimistic of the impacts of this research:
"This technology could ultimately be applied to all crops because it involves the over-expression of a gene found in all plants," said Dr. Roberto Gaxiola, a plant biologist at the University of Connecticut and the lead author of the study. "It has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and improve food production worldwide by addressing an increasing global concern: water scarcity."
Source: AgNews, Texas A&M University
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