Giant tobacco plants that stay young forever

Monday, January 7, 2013 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

Tobacco plants bloom when they are just a few months old – and then they die. Now, researchers have located a genetic switch which can keep the plants young for years and which permits unbounded growth. In short, an ideal source of biomass.

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