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Portulaca oleracea
August 11 , 2022
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- A common weed, Portulaca oleracea, is commonly known as purslane.
- It offers important clues about creating drought-tolerant crops in a world beset by climate change.
- This plant integrates two distinct metabolic pathways in order to create a novel type of photosynthesis.
- This photosynthesis enables it to endure droughts, while also remaining highly productive.
- This is a very rare combination of traits and has created a kind of ‘super plant’.'
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