Electronic circuits reveal when a plant begins to experience drought conditions. Forgot to water that plant on your desk again? It may soon be able to send out an SOS. MIT engineer... Read more
Certain drought-stressed wheat cultivars perform better when their roots are in symbiosis with beneficial fungi Scientists at Aarhus University have discovered that fungi associate... Read more
Drought is one of the most urgent environmental crises facing the world today. In new work reported in The Plant Cell, scientists from Korea used a genome-wide approach to studying... Read more
At the peak of the drought, Shabi Zvieli, an Israeli gardener, feared for his livelihood. A hefty tax was placed on excessive household water consumption, penalizing families with... Read more
UC Riverside-led research in synthetic biology provides a strategy that has reprogrammed plants to consume less water after they are exposed to an agrochemical, opening new doors f... Read more
“It’s like a switch we can turn on and off to modulate how plants cope with water stress.” A three-year drought has farmers and food companies seeking new strateg... Read more
