For the past several seasons, she has been cultivating a drought-tolerant hybrid maize that has become her lifeline. When she first planted hybrid maize in 2016, she was surprised by the results ...

Maize farming faces significant challenges throughout the world due to drought, leading to substantial economic losses. This is especially critical in ...

Sunchokes ( Helianthus tuberosus ), also known as Jerusalem artichokes, grow from tubers, which store water. Additionally, ...

Maize plants might also survive after a drought ... although genes from resurrection plants have been shown to improve drought tolerance in some food crops. But once the first green shoot emerges ...

A method using free software and a drone with a low-cost camera has made it possible to select drought-tolerant corn plants.

“We found that drought stress damages the photosystem apparatus in maize by reducing the function ... of melatonin were more conspicuous in the tolerant cultivar than in a more sensitive ...

As a result of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project undertaken during the first decade of this century by CIMMYT and IATA, both centers of the CGIAR system, millions of African ...