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	Podcast:		UC Berkeley (Video)
	Episode:		Growing Plants with Less Water?
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:01:10
	Publish Date:		2018-08-09 16:00:00
	Description:		Crops possibly can be grown with significantly less water by altering a gene involved in regulating photosynthesis, according to new research by a team that included UC Berkeley scientists. Berkeley professor Krishna Niyogi, chair of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, and his lab found that a increasing a protein called PsbS improved the water-use efficiency of plants — the ratio of carbon dioxide entering the plant to water escaping — by 25 percent without significantly sacrificing photosynthesis or yields. That means the plants were able to thrive on 25 percent less water. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Show ID: 33981]
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