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Plant gene for water efficiency found ANU researchers have identified a gene that regulates the water efficiency of plants, the first to be discovered that mediates the process critical to plant survival, crop yield and vegetation dynamics.Dr Josette Masle, from the Research School of Biological Sciences, with colleagues Mr Scott Gilmore and Professor Graham Farquhar, identified the gene in the model plant Arabidopsis, a convenient species for laboratory studies of genetics, and the only plant species with rice for which the whole genome has been sequenced.
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