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Antarctic endophytes improve drought tolerance in lettuce plants

Antarctic endophytes improve drought tolerance in lettuce plants

Antarctic root-endophytes were collected from plants such as Colobanthus quitensis, seen here growing on the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Photo credit: Marco Molina Montenegro. Climate change has limited the availability of water for irrigating crops throughout many regions of the world. Indeed, current models of climate change predict that arid and semi-arid zones will be places where…

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