How Researchers Gain Insight into Creating Drought-Resistant Crops

A new study shows that plants can regulate themselves to fluctuating heat in underground climates.

By Elizabeth Gamillo
Jul 13, 2023 3:15 PMJul 13, 2023 3:14 PM
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As sessile living things, plants must adapt and respond to their ever-changing environments. And in recent years, understanding how roots may regulate high temperatures has gained traction among scientists.

Biologists thought young plant shoots controlled temperature within the plants and acted as a transmitter that signaled the root to alter its growth, said Marcel Quint, a plant biologist and study author at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in a statement.

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