Understanding enzyme could help produce frost-resistant crops
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that an enzyme in plants, ATP Synthase, plays a critical role in how plants respond to the cold.
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Climate changes require better adaptation to drought
Europe's future climate will be characterised by more frequent heat waves and more widespread drought. Heat and drought will both challenge crop production, but drought in particular will be a problem—especially for spring ...
Researchers take genomic sequencing to the farm to help transform lives
In a world first, international scientists including a University of Otago researcher, have used whole genome sequencing to help diagnose a plant pathogen destroying crops on African farms, potentially paving the way for ...
Root architecture discoveries could help breed drought-resistant crops
We should breed new varieties of crops based on their root architecture rather than just focusing on the top half of the plant, according to scientists looking at how to cultivate plants that use water more efficiently and ...
Beer supply threatened by future weather extremes
Severe climate events could cause shortages in the global beer supply, according to new research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Are electric fences really the best way to solve human-elephant land conflicts?
Conflict between humans and elephants has reached a crisis point in Kenya. As the elephants have begun to regularly raid farms in search of food, it has become not uncommon for local people to attack and kill them in retaliation. ...
Australia needs more carbon in its soil to help farmers through the drought
Australia has never been a stranger to droughts, but climate change is now super-charging them.
Organic farming with gene editing—an oxymoron or a tool for sustainable agriculture?
A University of California, Berkeley professor stands at the front of the room, delivering her invited talk about the potential of genetic engineering. Her audience, full of organic farming advocates, listens uneasily. She ...
Study in Ethiopia links healthy soils to more nutritious cereals
Large fields, predictable rainfall and favourable temperatures have meant that farmers in Arsi Negele, a town in southeastern Ethiopia, have benefited from good crop yields. Their production of wheat and maize, two of the ...
Crisis management: Seven ways to engineer climate
Dismissed a decade ago as far-fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debates towards centre stage.
