Sugarcane drought tolerant strain NXI-4T has a resistance to drought. This sugarcane was developed by PT Riset Perkebunan Nusantara which coorporates with Jember University. This strain already have been approved by Indonesian Agricultural Ministry.
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Morphology
This strain has purple stem, green non-hairy leaves.
Genetic Modification Techniques
This strain was modified using Agrobacterium tumefaciens and plasmid pMHL2113. Agrobacterium transferred the betA gene from Rhizobium meliloti.
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Sugarcane Drought Tolerant strain NXI-4T Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA