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Drought tolerance of wild watermelon
Many genes have been reported to render plants resistant to environmental stresses. However, there has been no report showing that these plants survive under severe natural environments. Yokota et al. (pp. 825-832) demonstrate that wild species, including wild watermelon, may have unique strategies to survive severe conditions in addition to basic mechanisms typical of domesticated or overly protected plants.
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