In a recent review published in the journal aBIOTECH, researchers from China investigated the mechanisms that help crops ...

Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

causing stress. Make sure that you are providing water through irrigation if there is not timely rain. Increasing soil organic matter by adding compost can improve a sandy soil’s ability to hold water ...

The Purdue Extension Field Crops team has compiled research-based resources and best management practices for drought and heat stress.

Iowa: Five days with 103° heat index equated to five weeks of stress on corn crops in Iowa. The crops clearly ran out of energy and will see a just-below-average yield. Minnesota: Burn is eating ...

Richard Percy notes that heat stress occurs in cotton plants at some point every season in the humid Deep South and in the dry desert West. Now research leader of the Crop Germplasm Research Unit ...

Understanding how plants withstand heat stress is key to developing strategies to help both native plants and crops survive in an increasingly warming climate, supporting both ecosystem stability ...

“Crops could experience heat stress.” India is the second-largest wheat producer in the world, but consecutive years of extreme heat have seen yields slashed, forcing the country to ban ...