I’m a plant scientist who specialised in stressing plants out in dehydrating conditions! Plants are living beings, they experience dehydration stress just like us. However, they cannot run away from whatever is “upsetting” them, so they need to deal with it. As plants cannot communicate with humans, they cannot say how they recognise to deal with the stressful conditions.
My interest is in understanding how plants know, at physiological and gene/DNA level. This way, I can link the physical response (such as wilting) to the change at DNA level, therefore identify genes that possibly play a role in dehydration.
Research keyword: Plant genetics
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