Team discovers how plants avoid sunburn

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 12:51 in Biology & Nature

A Dartmouth-led team has discovered a group of stress-related proteins that explains how plants avoid sunburn in intense light, a finding that one day could help biotechnologists to develop crops that can better cope with hotter, drier conditions occurring in climate change.

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