Drought is the most devastating abiotic stress factor worldwide affecting crop production, severely limiting plant growth and development and reducing crop yields. It is projected to worsen with ...

For many smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia, rice is more than a staple food—it’s a livelihood. Generations of smallholder farmers have relied solely on rainfall to irrigate their crops, ...

Indian researchers are engineering a new kind of agriculture. Tools and techniques like CRISPR and breeding chambers are showing a glimmer of hope for a future where agriculture will have to be far ...

Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision ...

Drought can have a lasting impact on the community of microbes that live in and around roots of rice plants. The results show how plants may more quickly adapt to repeated intermittent drought.

In one of the greenhouses on the Lundberg Family Farms acreage in northern California, there sits a binder. Technically, there are multiple volumes of the binder, as it’s grown significantly over the ...