Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...
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Resilient desert plant shows how agricultural crops could beat global warming
Life in places like California’s Death Valley pushes everything to its limit. Temperatures rise past 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
In our desert, the biggest limitations for plant survival are heat and drought. Our native plants have developed some amazing strategies to help them survive our desert climate extremes; these ...
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This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From?
Death Valley is legendarily one of the most extreme places on Earth, with summer temperatures regularly skyrocketing above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. This desert, located in eastern California, is also ...
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🌱 This plant thrives in Death Valley: its secret could save us
In the heart of the scorching desert of Death Valley in California, a modest plant defies the laws of nature by thriving ...
As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions. This challenge is especially urgent for crops—plants resilient to drought and ...
Scientists are studying Death Valley's Tidestromia oblongifolia, a desert plant thriving above 45°C, to develop heat-resilient crops. This remarkable ...
In the plant world, there is a standard for doing business. You don’t rely on food from other sources, you make it yourself using sunlight energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose ...
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