With the global climate becoming less and less predictable, and California suffering from a seemingly endless drought, crops are destined to suffer. Scientists are focusing on building hardier plants—and a team in Oxford may have found the key, detailed in a study released yesterday.
Plant gene SP1 controls the development of chloroplasts, which you probably remember from high school biology as the centers of photosynthesis.
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Ref: Regulation of Chloroplast Protein Import by the Ubiquitin E3 Ligase SP1 Is Important for Stress Tolerance in Plants. Current Biology (2015) | DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.08.015