Increasing Drought News Today

 According to The U.S. Drought Monitor, Chicago has experienced abnormal dryness, moderate drought, and severe drought.

Increasing Drought Tolerance University of Nevada, Reno research addressing future population growth and food shortages   After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the effects of drought. The tissue succulence engineering method devised for this small flowering plant can be used in other plants to improve drought and salinity tolerance with ...