Iowa State: Understanding How Plants Balance Growth and Survival, One Cell at a Time
October 17, 2024
October 17, 2024
AMES, Iowa, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release:
Hongqing Guo studies a gene that affects both how plants grow and how they respond to environmental threats, hoping to unravel - and then harness - the balancing act between fortifying and flourishing.
"Unfavorable conditions tell a plant to slow down growth so they can survive. But when that happens to crops, we lose yield. We're trying to figure out how plants manage to survi . . .
Hongqing Guo studies a gene that affects both how plants grow and how they respond to environmental threats, hoping to unravel - and then harness - the balancing act between fortifying and flourishing.
"Unfavorable conditions tell a plant to slow down growth so they can survive. But when that happens to crops, we lose yield. We're trying to figure out how plants manage to survi . . .