Yandeau-Nelson and students in her lab will grow and examine the plant roots to identify how different gene combinations contribute to the cuticle and other plant characteristics. Rajib Sahah, ...

Gene May Produce Drought-resistant Plants Date: May 22, 2003 Source: Purdue University Summary: The identification and duplication of a gene that controls production of plants' outermost ...

The cuticle also helps plants retain water, and similarly can trap volatile compounds in tissues. The solution, the team thought, would be to thin the cuticle. The lab did so by manually removing some ...

Compared to beautiful flowers or delicious fruits, a plant’s cuticle – the layered structure that controls the movement of waxes to the surface of leaves and petals – sounds boring. But in ...

This is apparently because the mutation, called wax2, has a different cuticle structure than found in a plant that has the normal gene, WAX2. "If we can alter the expression of the WAX2 gene, we might ...

Compared to beautiful flowers or delicious fruits, a plant’s cuticle – the layered structure that controls the movement of waxes to the surface of leaves and petals – sounds boring. But in ...