Selecting and Planting Low-Water Crops for a Sustainable Backyard Garden
Embarking on the journey of creating a backyard garden that provides fresh, nutritious vegetables and…
Tag: crops
Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?
In early April of last year, a white capsule the size of a small school…
Adapting Crops for Extreme Weather
In late September, an international team of researchers fanned out across a remote New Mexico mountain range,…
‘Nothing’s predictable’: Extreme weather is ruining farmers’ crops, and their finances
This story is the last in a four-part Grist series examining how climate change is destabilizing the…
Natural GM crops: Grasses take evolutionary shortcut by borrowing genes from their neighbors
Grass may transfer genes from their neighbours in the same way genetically modified crops are…
Mysterious family of microbial proteins hijack crops’ cellular plumbing
Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply use a common…