New Salk Findings Yield Insights into How Plants Get Their Traits (IMAGE)

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New Salk Findings Yield Insights into How Plants Get Their Traits

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A new technique developed by Salk Institute scientists for rapidly mapping regions of DNA targeted by regulatory proteins could give scientists insight into what makes some plants drought tolerant or disease resistant, among other traits.

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