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Australian 'Resurrection Plants' Shed Light On Ways To Create Drought-Tolerant Crops [1]

During periods of drought, a native Australian grass, Tripogon loliiformis, "plays dead" to reserve its energy for when it is later resurrected by water, according to researchers from the Queenslan

Publication Date: 
08/12/2015
Nature World News [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Droughts [4], Food Security [5], Global Warming [6], Food Crops [7], Australia [8]

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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/australia