<i>Setaria viridis</i> (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

<i>Setaria viridis</i>

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Researchers will look for the genes that drive drought tolerance in Setaria viridis, a grass that is closely related to corn and to biofuel feedstocks such as Miscanthus and switchgrass.

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Public domain image by Christiaan Sepp (1853)

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