How Tomato Plants Use Their Roots to Ration Water During Drought (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

How Tomato Plants Use Their Roots to Ration Water During Drought

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New work by Prof. Siobhan Brady and Alex Cantó-Pastor at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences shows how tomato plants can make themselves more drought-tolerant by producing a waxy substance, suberin, in their roots. 

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TJ Ushing/UC Davis College of Biological Sciences

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