{"id":142619,"date":"2022-07-21T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-have-created-genetically-modified-drought-resistant-plants"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:24:00","slug":"scientists-have-created-genetically-modified-drought-resistant-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-have-created-genetically-modified-drought-resistant-plants","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created Genetically Modified Drought-Resistant Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-genetically-modified-drought-resistant-plants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proteins serve a variety of purposes in plants in addition to being the fundamental building blocks of life. More than 20 billion protein molecules make up a typical plant cell, helping to stabilize its structure and sustain cellular metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/heidelberg-university\/>Heidelberg University\u2019s<\/a> Centre for Organismal Studies have shed light on a biological process that increases the life of plant proteins. They have now discovered a crucial protein, called N-terminal acetylation, that controls this mechanism. The study\u2019s findings were published in the journals Molecular Plant and Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>N-terminal acetylation is a chemical marker that develops during the production of proteins. Plants do this by affixing an acetic acid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proteins serve a variety of purposes in plants in addition to being the fundamental building blocks of life. More than 20 billion protein molecules make up a typical plant cell, helping to stabilize its structure and sustain cellular metabolism. Researchers at Heidelberg University\u2019s Centre for Organismal Studies have shed light on a biological process that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}