Jose Dinneny, a professor of Biology at Stanford University, with Arabidopsis thaliana plants that he has been engineering with synthetic gene circuits. — Bay Area News Group/TNS
SAN JOSE: To feed a hotter and drier planet, Stanford scientists are building a smarter plant.
The team has genetically reprogrammed plants, nurtured in a laboratory chamber, to grow roots that are long or short, branched or slender — traits that change the ability to gather nutrients or water.
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