Scientists engineer crops to conserve water, resist drought
▻https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-crops-resist-drought.html
#Agriculture already monopolizes 90 percent of global freshwater—yet production still needs to dramatically increase to feed and fuel this century’s growing population. For the first time, scientists have improved how a crop uses water by 25 percent without compromising yield by altering the expression of one gene that is found in all plants, as reported in Nature Communications.