Combining chemical and genetic approaches to increase drought resistance in plants
oleh: Min-Jie Cao, Yu-Lu Zhang, Xue Liu, Huan Huang, X. Edward Zhou, Wen-Long Wang, Ai Zeng, Chun-Zhao Zhao, Tong Si, Jiamu Du, Wen-Wu Wu, Fu-Xing Wang, H. Eric Xu, Jian-Kang Zhu
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2017-10-01 |
Deskripsi
Plants respond to abiotic stress via the phytohormone ABA. Here, Cao et al. report a series of new ABA receptor agonists, named AMFs, which have higher receptor-binding affinities and show that, when employed in tandem with ABA receptor overexpression, can significantly increase drought resistance