Sweet Relief: UFV Research Shows Melatonin Helps Strawberries Handle the Heat
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Sweet relief: UFV research shows melatonin helps strawberries handle the heat
UFV student Emily Foster at work in the cutting-edge Berry Environmental Resilience Research & Innovation (BERRI) Lab on the UFV Chilliwack campus. For humans, melatonin is useful for getting to sleep. For strawberry plants, it may be a tool for survival in a warming world. UFV student researcher Emily Foster recently finished a study that found melatonin reduces heat stress in alpine strawberries, increasing the resilience of a native crop. Me…
In the middle of summer, under a hot sun, humans sweat, animals seek shade... but plants cannot move. However, they often manage to survive...
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