Identifying genes that make plants more resistant to stress factors
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
In the past 70 years, the world's population tripled to more than seven billion and average global temperature increased by nearly one degree Celsius. Population growth and climate change are associated with big challenges facing modern agriculture. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) combines computer science and biology to identify genes that make plants more resistant to stress factors, such as drought and saline soils.