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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

If you grow beans in a garden that dries out mid-summer, the right root bacteria could keep your ...

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

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

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...

Tomato plants engineered without this gene wilted and struggled under dry conditions, pointing to...

If you grow tomatoes, letting seedlings go through a short, mild dry spell before summer heat arr...

The corn stalks in a summer garden wilt and stall when rain stops, and the gene switches found he...

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

Every drought-stressed tomato, squash, or fruit tree in your garden is already running this same ...

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

Every drought-stressed plant in your garden is fighting water loss through its skin, not just its...

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

If you grow peanuts or other legumes in a dry-prone bed, this work points to root-zone microbes a...

Roots that keep pushing downward through dry spells are what keep a corn patch, a sunflower row, ...

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 ...

The way a plant closes its leaf pores and turns stored starch into sugar during dry spells is the...

The leaves at the top of the oak or maple shading your yard are built differently from the ones n...

If you're planting pines for shade or a windbreak in a dry region, seed from trees that have surv...

Alfalfa feeds the cattle and horses behind much of the milk, cheese, and hay we rely on, and it a...

Grasses like Siberian wildrye anchor the rangelands and restoration prairies that hold soil in pl...

The bread on your table depends on wheat harvests that are getting hit harder by drought years, a...

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

Ornamental grasses, corn, and sorghum all rely on the same kind of internal plumbing, and leaf sc...

Corn in a backyard bed gets dappled shade from neighbors, passing clouds, and swaying leaves all ...