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Drought-tolerant varieties begin global march : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group
Saturday, April 19, 2014 22:52
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175.2 million hectares of biotech crops were grown globally in 2013. In the United States, the first commercialized drought-tolerant maize (MON87460) expressing Bacillus subtilis cold shock protein B (cspB) was planted by 2,000 farmers over 50,000 hectares. Indonesia also approved drought-tolerant sugarcane expressing choline dehydrogenase (betA), …. Other drought-resistant varieties of sugarcane, maize, wheat and rice are also in field trials…
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