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Uncovering Candidate Cold Tolerance Genes In Maize (Zea Mays), Raeann N. Goering
Uncovering Candidate Cold Tolerance Genes In Maize (Zea Mays), Raeann N. Goering
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With booming populations soon to overwhelm the world's food production capabilities, studying what makes crop organisms, like maize, efficient is crucial to ensure that the demand for food is met. Planting earlier in the spring would lengthen the crop season and produce larger yields provided the crop is tolerant to early spring’s low temperatures. Plants can adjust to abiotic stresses through biochemical changes controlled by transcription of genes. Trained plants can be produced by pre-exposing them to a lesser stress, allowing them to recover, then exposing them to a greater, longer stress. It is hypothesized that trained plants will tolerate …