Drought Articles & Analysis
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l Assessing stress responses to factors such as drought, salinity, or heavy metals. l Evaluating the success of protoplast isolation or cryopreservation techniques. ...
In rice, genome editing has enabled the development of strains with improved drought resistance, a critical trait given the global challenges of climate change and water scarcity. ...
This method is particularly valuable for identifying the target genes regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs), which are small, endogenous non-coding RNAs approximately 22 nucleotides in length. miRNAs play crucial roles in various biological processes, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, metabolism, and responses to environmental stresses such as drought and high ...
Integration of data mining and bioinformatic tools to enable scientists to accelerate genomics-based crop improvement and ...
AlphaFold AI System can change the world While 2020 was a difficult time across many metrics, it was an exciting year for protein science! AlphaFold gained international acclaim for advancing protein structure prediction after blowing the competition out of the water at CASP in both the 2018 and 2020 competitions (1). The AlphaFold system uses AI to decipher an unknown protein structure by ...
Others are working to create a stronger rice plant that can withstand floods and drought caused by climate change. There are a few examples that illustrate the power of CRISPR. ...
Turf quality (TQ) decline due to drought is a major concern in cool-season turfgrass management. The study was conducted to examine whether selected Texas (TBG) x Kentucky bluegrass (KBG) hybrids (HBGs) (Poa arachnifera Torr. x P. pratensis L.) exhibit improved drought stress tolerance and recuperative ability in comparison to commonly-used KBG (P. pratensis) ...
Treated biosolids improved turfgrass quality and root mass under both soil moisture regimes and delayed leaf wilting under moisture stress. At the end of the second drought cycle (2 February), treated biosolids improved quality and photochemical efficiency by 18 and 26% relative to the control. Treated biosolids increased leaf IAA by 122 and 52%, respectively, and trans-zeatin ...
A secondary objective was to determine if genotypic differences in WUE and gdark in cotton were constitutive in nature, or if they differed between water replete and drought conditions. There was significant genotypic variation for both WUE and gdark, and in both cases the lack of a treatment x genotype interaction indicated that the trait was constitutive. ...
In this study, the authors reviewed using the geometric mean various conditions including the amount of rain in previous days, wind direction and speed, tides and high tide height, water temperature, drought or flood conditions for the season, different materials coming into the swimming areas, and the location and amount of any sewage spills. Only three events showed statistical ...
Examples are given of mapped SNP markers for the phytic acid pathway gene for myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase and a drought tolerance–related gene, S-adenosylmethionine ...
Among likely climate changes are changes in the intensity and frequency of precipitation, more frequent heat waves, less frequent cold waves, more persistent and extreme drought conditions and associated water shortages, changes in minimum and maximum temperatures, potential increases in the intensity and frequency of extreme tropical storms, measurable sea-level rise and ...