Growing Plants with Less Water?
Agriculture and Natural Resources (Video)
English - August 09, 2018 21:00 - 1 minute - 21.4 MB Video - ★★★ - 5 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Crops possibly can be grown with significantly less water by altering a gene involved in regulating photosynthesis, according to new research by a team that included UC Berkeley scientists. Berkeley professor Krishna Niyogi, chair of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, and his lab found that a increasing a protein called PsbS improved the water-use efficiency of plants — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yields. That means the plants were able to thrive on 25 percent less water. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 33981]