drought-resilience

The tomatoes wilting in your garden and the trees lining your street are entering an era of more ...

Poplar trees lining your streets or growing along riverbanks are quietly directing underground ba...

Gardeners in dry climates spend enormous effort keeping soil from cracking between waterings; thi...

Understanding exactly which soil microbes and plant compounds team up to fight drought could lead...

When foresters choose which oak trees to plant in your local park or watershed, picking trees who...

If drought conditions can program a plant's offspring to host different soil microbes, gardeners ...

The wildflowers blooming earlier each spring in your local meadow aren't just reacting to warmer ...

If you're trying to restore a dry garden patch or a drought-stressed lawn, there's a real moistur...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and as droughts become more frequent with clima...

Same biological tricks that let certain exotic plants survive brutal droughts could potentially b...

Every tree in your yard is almost certainly plugged into a fungal web right now, and that web is ...

The wheat in your bread relies on invisible communities of root bacteria to survive dry spells — ...

Growing potatoes through a dry summer just got more tractable — two affordable soil and foliar am...

If you grow tomatoes through a hot, dry summer and watch them wilt no matter how carefully you wa...

If you grow sorghum, finger millet, or pearl millet in a dry-summer garden, you're already workin...

Watering your tomatoes on a graduated deficit schedule — intentionally letting them experience mi...

Every time a drought summer cracks your garden soil, your plants are already running this exact s...

Soybeans are in roughly 60% of processed foods — breeding drought-tougher varieties means more st...

Mixing this waste-derived clay into a drought-stressed garden bed could mean watering half as oft...

Drought hotspots in the central US, eastern Brazil, and South Asia are already quietly shrinking ...

Soybeans bred for drought-resistant plumbing could keep yields stable through the dry summers tha...

Corn silk is more fragile than it looks — a week of dry heat at the wrong moment shrivels it befo...

Mulberry trees feed silkworms, anchor soil, and increasingly show up in edible landscaping — know...

Farmers growing soybeans through increasingly brutal summer droughts may one day treat seeds with...

Gardeners in cold, dry climates who lose plants to late frosts or summer dry spells could one day...

The dead leaves and stems you mulch into your garden beds are broken down by soil microbes that p...

Tomatoes are notoriously thirsty plants, and understanding how they can be bred to handle dry spe...

Sorghum quietly feeds hundreds of millions of people in the world's driest, hottest regions — and...

Farmers growing the alfalfa, corn, and pecan crops that feed your region's food supply are being ...