crop-resilience
Crop-resilience refers to the capacity of cultivated plants to withstand and recover from environmental stresses such as drought, disease, and temperature extremes while maintaining productivity. This concept is crucial for plant science because it directly addresses food security challenges posed by climate change and environmental variability. Understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying resilience enables researchers to develop more robust crop varieties capable of sustaining yields under increasingly adverse growing conditions.
PubMed · 2026-02-11
Grafting tomatoes onto salt-tolerant rootstock creates heritable DNA changes lasting 3+ generations, opening a non-GMO path to crop resilience.
Epigenetic changes persist 3 generations
Methylation overlaps salt-stress genes
Non-transgenic heritable improvement