Food production: reducing water consumption by manipulating long-distance chemical signalling in plants
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Food production: reducing water consumption by manipulating long-distance chemical signalling in plants.
One of the great challenges for the future is the production of sufficient food for a dramatically growing population during a period of climate change where water supplies are dwindling, and phytotoxic air pollutants such as ozone are increasing. By 2050 global grain demand is expected to double (Postel, 1998; Tilman et al., 2002; Schiermeier, 2008). Greater food production, however, will requ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Botany
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-0957,1460-2431
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp121