In research that offers promise for growing crops in a warmer, drier world, scientists at UW-Madison have identified dozens of proteins that control how plants respond to drought. The findings were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers, led by Michael Sussman, a professor of biochemistry, probed the workings of a well-known plant hormone called abscisic acid in the oft-used laboratory plant Arabidopsis.
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