可使水稻免受洪灾影响的基因

据发表在英国科学杂志《自然》上的一项研究称,一个国际遗传学家小组已经确认一种有助于使水稻免受洪灾影响的基因。研究人员说,这种基因能使作物在水中淹没2周后依然存活。洪水每年都会给南亚和东南亚的农民造成超过10亿美元的损失,20世纪90年代中期朝鲜的洪灾也导致了大约200

Gene Discovered to Help Rice Fields Threatened by Floods

An international team of geneticists has pinpointed a gene that can help save rice plants from disastrous floods, according to their study, published in the British science journal Natural. The gene allows plants to survive completely immersion in water for up to two weeks, they say.