Many crop plants suffer significant yield losses due to growth under suboptimal environmental conditions. One of the most important causes of reduced yield is drought stress. Equally important is the improved usage of water and nutrients by crops.
CropDesign is developing sets of transgenes that confer enhanced tolerance of plants to either drought stress, salinity stress or improve water or nutrient use efficiency.
The benefits of CropDesign's technologies for stress tolerance include:
- Flexible set up to test responses to abiotic stress under different candidates
- Protection against deleterious effects of desiccation and osmotic imbalance
- Improve usage of water and nutrients
