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Common Plant Growth Regulator Helps Creeping Bentgrass Weather Drought
April 15, 2010 — In their ongoing search for ways to improve turfgrass growth in environments where water is limited, scientists are searching for effective water saving practices by looking to factors that influence ... > full story -
Bringing Dehydrated Plants 'Back to Life': Possible Key to Desiccation-Tolerant Plants
April 1, 2010 — Drought can take a toll on plants and animals alike. When cells are deprived of water, they shrink, collapsing in upon themselves and, without water as a medium, chemicals and enzymes inside the ... > full story -
Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse? Evidence Suggests Changing Environment Can Bring Down a Civilization
March 29, 2010 — Decades of drought, interspersed with intense monsoon rains, may have helped bring about the fall of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization at Angkor nearly 600 years ago, according to an analysis of ... > full story -
New Study Debunks Myths About Vulnerability of Amazon Rain Forests to Drought
March 11, 2010 — A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report ... > full story -
Roots Key to Second Green Revolution
February 20, 2010 — Root systems are the basis of the second Green Revolution, and the focus on beans and corn that thrive in poor growing conditions will help some of the world's poorest farmers, according to a plant ... > full story -
New Maize Varieties to Boost Grain Production in West and Central Africa
February 15, 2010 — Maize production in West and Central Africa is set to get a significant boost. Newly released varieties address many of the major constraints to grain production in the sub-region such as drought, ... > full story -
Moss Helps Chart the Conquest of Land by Plants
February 4, 2010 — Clues to how the first land plants managed to avoid drying out might be provided by bryophytes, a group that includes the mosses, many of which retain remarkable drought tolerance. Some mosses can ... > full story -
Researchers Fight World Hunger by Mapping the Soybean Genome
February 1, 2010 — A team of researchers recently completed a study identifying 1.1 million base pairs of DNA in the soybean genome, including more than 90 distinct traits that affect plant development, productive ... > full story -
Learning from Climate's Sedimental Journey
January 29, 2010 — By analyzing sediments up to 4,000 years old, an environmental scientist is hoping to provide a tool to help predict future climate change. Ancient records of what was happening with climate ... > full story -
Mixed Water Portfolio Helps Thirsty Cities
January 19, 2010 — Computer simulations for drought-prone areas reveal that when urban water planners combine three approaches of buying water -- permanent rights, options and leases -- the city avoids surplus water ... > full story
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