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Genetic Discovery May Allow Lettuce Growth Even in Hot Temperatures

2013-04-01 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: A team of scientists has identified the specific gene in lettuce that causes the plants seeds to stop germinating in warm temperatures, a discovery they say could allow production of the food crop year-round even in the planets hotter regions. Writing in the journal The Plant Cell, the researchers say they identified a chromosome in the wild ancestor of commercial lettuce varieties that enabled seeds to germinate even in warm temperatures. When the chromosome was crossed with commercial varieties...

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