Sowing a Future for Peas
September 19, 2008| |
Discovering what will make peas survive drought stress is the aim of a project being conducted at the John Innes Centre and the Central Science Laboratory. Using NMR spectroscopy, researcher Dr. Claire Domoney of the John Innes Centre produced a profile of the levels of all the different small molecules or metabolites in pea plant leaves. This “metabolome” was compared with that from plants subjected to controlled drought stress. As expected, several key plant metabolites were increased under drought stress - maybe the key to its survival in drought stress. In addition, the metabolome change may also be manifested in the taste and flavor of peas as well as its capacity to fix soil nitrogen.
See details of the article at http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/media-and-public/current-releases/080916Domoneypeas.htm
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