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 engineers have cre... Read more
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a new, yet simple, way to increase drought tolerance in a wide range of plants. Published in Nature Pl... 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 drought t... 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 lawns, swi... 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 for crop im... Read more
Gene gives plant a moisture sensor Duke University researchers have identified a gene that could help scientists engineer drought-resistant crops. The gene, called OSCA1, encodes a protein i... 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 strategies in sec... Read more
Our behavior here in the valley feels untenable and self-destructive EVERY Saturday in late December and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed in from fa... Read more
The researchers identified the Amazon region, the Mediterranean and East Africa as regions that might experience severe change in multiple sectors. Thirty research teams in 12 different coun... Read more
Apart from farming, it can also be used to reduce the amount of watering need for lawns, gardens, flowers and countless other home-based plants. Solid Rain is a Mexican-made product that loo... Read more
Curbing crops’ susceptibility to certain stressors could allow for higher yields during droughts and possibly allow drier climates to support profitable crops and feed the world’... Read more
WE’RE in the worst drought in the United States since the 1950s, and we’re wasting it. Though the drought has devastated corn crops and disrupted commerce on the Mississippi River, it also r... Read more
A more diverse cropping landscape would mean viable farms, healthier diets and a steadier food system. FROM where I sit on the north end of America’s grain belt, I can almost hear the corn p... Read more
