Engineered Plant Stomata (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Engineered Plant Stomata

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Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth-like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

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Jiayang Xie, Katarzyna G?owacka, Andrew D. B. Leakey

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