Improving Crop Yields in a World of Extreme Weather Events (University of California)

(Source: University of California) Improving Crop Yields in a World of Extreme Weather Events UC Riverside-led team develops new chemical for improving drought tolerance Water was withheld from the Soybean plants shown here for 14 days during which the plants were treated with either a control (left) or quinabactin (right). The treated plants do not wilt as rapidly due to the action of the new compound. Photo credit: Cutler Lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Farmers in the United States witnessed record-breaking extremes in temperature and drought during the last two summers, causing worldwide increases in the costs of food, feed and fiber.  Indeed, many climate scientists caution...