Each year, the facility can analyze the changes wrought by tweaking up to 1,300 genes, each one expressed and evaluated in over 100 different model plants. (discovermagazine.com)
By using different lines of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers from the Biochimie et physiologie moléculaire des plantes laboratory (CNRS / INRA / Université Montpellier / Montpellier SupAgro) and Institut Jean - Pierre Bourgin (INRA / AgroParisTech / CNRS) identified a gene that controls root water permeability and which is influenced jointly by soil oxygen and potassium levels. (sciencedaily.com)
Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.» (sciencedaily.com)