'Scaring' soybeans into defensive mode yields better plants a generation later
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 13:50
in Biology & Nature
By temporarily silencing the expression of a critical gene, researchers fooled soybean plants into sensing they were under siege, encountering a wide range of stresses. Then, after selectively cross breeding those plants with the original stock, the progeny "remember" the stress-induced responses to become more vigorous, resilient and productive plants, according to a team of researchers.