Klaus Winter (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Klaus Winter

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An experiment on 70 different species from 40 plant families growing in Panama suggests that the adaptation to a drought-resistant photosynthesis mechanism seems to involve a fundamental reprogramming of organic-acid metabolism.

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Sean Mattson/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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