drought-tolerance

The corn on your dinner plate could become harder to grow and more expensive as droughts intensif...

The wheat in your bread, pasta, and cereal is one of the crops most threatened by intensifying dr...

Wheat is in the bread, pasta, and cereal you eat every day, and droughts are becoming more freque...

It means the hot peppers in your garden or on your plate could be grown with far less water, help...

Vegetables, grains, and fruits you eat are increasingly threatened by droughts and heat waves, an...

The wheat in your bread, pasta, and cereal is increasingly threatened by droughts that climate ch...

Grains that make up most of the world's food supply — wheat, rice, corn — could be engineered to ...

A natural plant extract could help the corn in drought-stressed farming regions stay productive l...

It brings us closer to a domestically grown, water-efficient source of natural rubber, which coul...

Grapevines in wine regions worldwide are already struggling with longer, hotter dry seasons — thi...

Gardeners and farmers struggling with dry summers may be able to use low-cost chloride-containing...

Male and female buffalograss plants in a native lawn are running completely different drought-sur...

Wheat fields across the dryland plains are already pushing into shorter, hotter growing seasons —...

Growing spinach through a dry summer stretch just got a little more hopeful — a naturally occurri...

Wheat fields already face more frequent dry summers — this gene discovery opens a path to varieti...

Apple trees in mountain orchards facing longer dry spells could be shielded with a simple leaf tr...

Understanding which wheat genes switch on during drought could help breeders develop varieties th...

Rice paddies already stressed by shifting monsoons could stay productive longer if breeders activ...

Finger millet, foxtail millet, and their relatives have fed dry-land farmers for millennia — and ...

Every barley field — and every pint of beer or bowl of porridge that comes from it — depends on t...

Lianas are quietly winning the climate lottery in tropical forests — and understanding how their ...

Mimosa shrubs you might spot along roadsides or in dry gardens — those feathery-leaved plants tha...

Chickpeas grown in drought-prone regions — including backyard dry gardens and water-restricted pl...

Every tomato you've ever grown from seed carries hidden drought-survival switches — and researche...

If you've ever watched a plant push out more roots after a dry spell, you're seeing a version of ...

If Marvel of Peru is naturalizing in the Permian Basin's harsh alkaline soils, it could be a surp...