In addition to preventing water loss, plant cuticles must also regulate nutrient loss, leaching. The eceriferum mutants in Hordeum vulgare (barley) potentially influence these functions by altering epicuticular wax...
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Liam Elliott
Effectiveness of cuticular transpiration barriers in a desert plant at controlling water loss at high temperatures
Maintaining the integrity of the cuticular transpiration barrier even at elevated temperatures is of vital importance for hot-desert plants. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Schuster et al. investigated the...
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