Science news articles about 'tolerant crops'

... ). In sequential reuse systems, saline drainage water is sequentially applied on progressively more salt-tolerant crops where application of concentrated effluents to halophytes is the final step in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A five-year, $4 million U.S. agricultural genetic study is under way, seeking better disease-resistance, stress-tolerant crops and increased plant yields.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have deciphered the genetic make-up of sorghum, a drought-tolerant crop and important food and biofuel source, and said the breakthrough could help develop better ...

... new type of genetic modification (GM), bringing salt-tolerant cereal crops a step closer to reality. The research team – based at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus in ...

... also be needed. Of course these actions need to be paralleled by development of drought- tolerant crops, and the provision of infrastructure and facilities to get fresh food to markets. Current ...

Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land. Now biochemists have ...

... a variety of soil types so that scientists can study how certain plants respond to a broad range of drought conditions, providing information that is critical to develop more tolerant crop plants.