As Australia swelters through a scorching summer, the nation's flora is facing not just extreme heat, but also prolonged heat ...

Extreme drought in grasslands experiment. [Photo provided to ] A groundbreaking study led by Chinese scientists has uncovered divergent drought survival strategie ...

Agricultural science is increasingly focusing on the utilization of biostimulants as a means to enhance plant stress tolerance, which is crucial for crop ...

The effects of water restriction on cowpea can be reversed by the use of eliciting substances such as salicylic acid (SA). Thus, the objective was to evaluate the water status, cellular integrity and ...

Plants live under various biotic and abiotic stress conditions, and to cope with the adversity and severity of these conditions, they have developed well-established resistance mechanisms. These ...

It may be hard to define a melatonin overdose because no standard or safe dose has been established. However, in large amounts, melatonin supplements may disrupt sleep cycles and cause other acute ...

Hotel pools on Greek islands could be filled with seawater this summer as politicians try to combat the country's two-year drought. Proposed new laws debated in the Greek parliament this week ...

This storm, however, won’t have much of an impact on the region’s drought conditions ... The dwindling chaparral — indigenous plants that are more fire resistant than invasive plants ...