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Improvement of water use efficiency in rice by expression of HARDY, an Arabidopsis drought and salt tolerance gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Sept 2007
Karaba Aarati, Dixit Shital, Greco Raffaella, Aharoni Asaph, Trijatmiko Kurniawan R, Marsch-Martinez Nayelli, Krishnan Arjun, Nataraja Karaba N, Udayakumar Makarla, Pereira Andy
Abstract excerpt
Freshwater is a limited and dwindling global resource; therefore, efficient water use is required for food crops that have high water demands, such as rice, or for the production of sustainable energy biomass. We show here that expression of the Arabidopsis HARDY (HRD) gene in rice improves water use efficiency, the ratio of biomass produced to the water used, by enhancing photosynthetic assimilation and reducing...
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