• A severe drought has squeezed the United States' largest peanut-producing area, stretching from southeast Alabama to southern Georgia and northern Florida. (csmonitor.com)
  • Mr. Leavitt notes that the dry spell is not as widespread as the Southeast's severe 1986 drought. (csmonitor.com)
  • Rice yields under severe drought conditions can be reduced by up to 65% in comparison to non-drought conditions. (cgiar.org)
  • The second-consecutive "La Nina" weather phenomenon this season has resulted in a severe drought in the country's agriculture regions, and forecasters are expecting the phenomenon to remain until May, thus potentially delaying rains in the autumn months. (agricensus.com)
  • Again for soybeans, dry and drought conditions in 2023 are the most severe since 2012. (aei.ag)
  • Severe drought in parts of the U.S., Australia, and Africa in recent years drastically reduced crop yields and disrupted regional economies. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is predicted that climate change may increase the risk of local droughts, with severe consequences for agricultural practices. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Severe drought late in spring had the highest effect on CP content. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As machines continue to grow and climate change increases the frequency of droughts the impact of erosion of soils by tillage on crop production in rolling topography is likely to become more severe across many parts of the world. (foodnavigator.com)
  • BUCHAREST (Romania), November 30 (SeeNews) - Romania's 2007 crop of cereals, sunflowerseeds, soybean and sugar beet is below expectations after a severe drought hit the country this year, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. (seenews.com)
  • That drought, more severe than this year's, stifled production. (heartland.org)
  • Global climate change has resulted in increasing occurrence of extreme weather and climatic events such as floods and droughts. (researchsquare.com)
  • In Italy, which has been buffeted by heat, droughts and floods this summer, fruit crops have been particularly hard hit, said Lorenzo Bazzana, economic manager for Italian farmers association, Coldiretti. (cnn.com)
  • For the deniers, however, as the years went on, it seemed that no accumulation of symptoms - floods, droughts, heat waves, fires, or tornadoes - could legitimately be added together to yield a diagnosis of climate change. (juancole.com)
  • ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, has enabled studies that show how the nature in Europe responds to extremely dry conditions, such as the drought in summer 2018. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The 2018 summer had the largest ever area in Europe under extreme drought. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The Rosario exchange, which cut its soy harvest outlook sharply in January, said in the report dated 17 February that the yield - the amount produced in a given area - could drop beneath the level in 2018 when a major drought hammered production. (esmmagazine.com)
  • The exchange currently forecasts the soybean crop yield at 31.8 quintals per hectare (qq/ha) in the core farm belt region, which compares to 29 qq/ha in 2017/2018. (esmmagazine.com)
  • 2018) designate an abnormally prolonged dry condition as drought, whereas in the view of Wilhite (2000), the timing and the effectiveness of precipitation could be linked to drought, hence making each drought event unique in impacts and characteristics. (researchsquare.com)
  • 2013) indicate that Ethiopia is largely drought-prone, the account of Mera (2018), shows that the northern parts of Ethiopia experience droughts every 3-5 years, with a recent successive occurrence in 2015-2017. (researchsquare.com)
  • In describing the impacts of the most recent droughts, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia [FDRE] (2017) reports that in 2015, drought in Ethiopia was linked with the global El Niño weather phenomenon, thus resulting in food insecurity for 10.2 million people, while Mera (2018) has it that the 2017 short season (March-April) rainfall was virtually a failure. (researchsquare.com)
  • An experiment was conducted in Debrecen, Hungary in 2017 and 2018 to evaluate the influence of moderate drought stress on some physiological parameters of both inoculated and non-inoculated soybean plants. (hbsraevents.org)
  • Recently I have been running a project collecting data on how the 2018 drought hit Swedish farmers, to be able to analyse how vulnerability to an extreme event is shaped in a "northern" context. (lu.se)
  • Bionic Palm Ltd., Ghana, is managing the world's most advanced Jatropha breeding program for non-toxic, high yielding hybrid cultivars. (slideshare.net)
  • The results of this study may guide breeders to introduce suitable drought resistant rapeseed cultivars for arid regions. (ac.ir)
  • Naderi, R., Emam, Y. Interrelationships among grain yield and related characters of four oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) cultivars under drought stress conditions. (ac.ir)
  • This will require developing high yielding cultivars that are able to perform better under drought and heat stress and with maturity durations to match the water availability period of target sites. (icrisat.org)
  • Increasing yield potential of the baseline, short and longer duration cultivars by increasing RUE (radiation use efficiency), G1 (scale for relative leaf size) and G2 (scale for partitioning of assimilates to the panicle) coefficients increased the grain yield to varying degree. (icrisat.org)
  • Although changes in tillage and irrigation practices can improve production by conserving water, enhancing the genetic tolerance of crops to drought stress is considered an essential strategy for addressing moisture deficits. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reports are contradictory on the reliability of stay green characteristic for selecting for yield under drought stress and of ears per plant and anthesis-silking interval in selecting for low-N tolerance. (iita.org)
  • Ear height, plant and ear aspects, and stay green characteristic were identifi ed by both path-coeffi cient and genotype main effect plus genotype × environment interaction (GGE) biplot analyses as reliable for selecting for low N and ear aspect, plant height, and anthesis-silking interval for drought tolerance. (iita.org)
  • The CSM-CERES-Sorghum model was used to quantify the potential benefits, in current and future climates, of incorporating crop maturity duration, yield enhancing, drought and heat tolerance traits in the commonly grown cultivar types at two sites (Akola and Indore) in India and one site (Samanko) in Mali, West Africa. (icrisat.org)
  • At the three sites the yield gains were larger by incorporating drought tolerance than heat tolerance trait in current climate, however, with climate change the yield gains due to heat tolerance increased trait increased especially at the Akola site. (icrisat.org)
  • Net benefit of incorporating both drought and heat tolerance traits increased up to 17% at Akola, 9% at Indore and 7% at Samanko with climate change. (icrisat.org)
  • For assessing or screening melon genotypes in a large number of accessions or breeding lines for their tolerance to salinity and drought during their young plant stage, the amount of citrulline accumulation in response to the given treatments might be considered as a novel biochemical indicator of interest in early selection studies. (hindawi.com)
  • Taken together, exogenous GABA can enhance the drought tolerance of apple seedlings . (bvsalud.org)
  • The impacts on crops are more mixed, with lower-latitude regions experiencing some declines in maize and wheat crops, whereas higher-latitude regions have seen some increases in crop yields. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Results published today in Philosophical Transactions B show, for example, that the vegetation's carbon sink function was reduced by 18 percent, and crops produced the lowest yields in decades. (sonnenseite.com)
  • Grasslands simply "browned-down" during the drought, and many crops produced the lowest yields in decades. (sonnenseite.com)
  • By utilizing available resources and closely monitoring their wheat crops, farmers can better understand the effects of drought and high temperatures and make informed choices to protect their yields and optimize their farming practices. (michiganagconnection.com)
  • Cereal crops typically attain only about 25% of their potential yield due to the effects of environmental stress, with dehydration stress the most important cause. (wikipedia.org)
  • No, farmers can't sell cover crops, but they do reap benefits from them, including increased yields of cash crops like corn and soybeans. (livescience.com)
  • Use of cover crops can also help farms survive the droughts expected to become more common in the era of climate change. (livescience.com)
  • If not managed properly, cover crops can deprive cash crops of water or even reduce yields. (livescience.com)
  • Now, a new survey of commercial farmers has confirmed that cover crops increase yields in corn and soybeans, the most common crops in the U.S. Moreover, cover crops were especially effective under drought conditions. (livescience.com)
  • In percentage terms, the extra bushels represent an average 9.6-percent-greater yield in corn planted after the planting of cover crops compared with crops not preceded by cover crops. (livescience.com)
  • The growers reported yield information from fields comparable in conditions and rotation - except for the cover crops. (livescience.com)
  • And, the advantages for cash crops planted after cover crops were even greater in states hit hard by drought. (livescience.com)
  • The 141 respondents from those states reported an average corn yield of 11.3 bushels per acre, which represented an 11 percent increase in crops grown after cover crops compared with those grown without them. (livescience.com)
  • Respondents from the drought-affected states reported even greater benefits in soybeans: an average increase of 5.7 bushels per acre, or 14.3 percent higher yields after cover crops. (livescience.com)
  • But the results were solid: Farmers enjoyed better corn yields after cover crops in all but one of the states hardest hit by the drought. (livescience.com)
  • The robustness of orphan crops is vital for farmers to increase their yields and incomes as global temperatures rise. (businesstrumpet.com)
  • Dissecting the dynamic responses of plants to drought will be beneficial for breeding drought-tolerant crops, as the genetic controls of these respons. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield and quality of major food crops. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Feed the Future also works with the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services to increase quality and availability of drought-tolerant crops and varieties. (who.int)
  • This Weekly Insights article will provide context around 2023 conditions and the potential yield implications. (aei.ag)
  • At 2023 acreage levels, this equates to an average of 15m acres of corn in drought as normal, with a combined 28m in dry and drought conditions. (aei.ag)
  • Figure 2 plots the degree or magnitude of drought conditions in 2012 and 2023. (aei.ag)
  • Similarly, a higher share of the 2023 crop is also in the most extreme drought conditions, D3 and D4. (aei.ag)
  • Drought Conditions of U.S. Corn Crop, 2012 versus 2023. (aei.ag)
  • For 2023, current drought conditions are considerably higher than normal levels and approaching 2012 conditions. (aei.ag)
  • It's worth pondering where the 2023 data point will end up, given we know that 71% of the crop was in drought conditions in mid-July. (aei.ag)
  • The CGIAR Research Program on Rice Agri-food Systems (RICE) has developed and released drought-tolerant rice varieties (DTRVs) throughout sub-Saharan Africa. (cgiar.org)
  • If the scientific community could predict such droughts and their impacts several months prior to the drought, we were better prepared to help adapting to changing climate conditions", ponders Professor Wouter Peters from the University of Wageningen, Netherlands, also one of the lead authors or the theme issue. (sonnenseite.com)
  • An examination of 2012 corn yields relative to trend yields provides evidence of where the drought had its worst impacts. (illinois.edu)
  • The drought had larger impacts on the eastern corn-belt than on the western corn-belt. (illinois.edu)
  • Additional disadvantages such as a largely rural population with very little education, totally dependent on agriculture for living and livelihood, and a limited capacity to withstand droughts could further extend impacts of droughts. (researchsquare.com)
  • Such impacts are capable of being magnified, as Gray and Mueller (2012) connect deep rural poverty with the amplification of drought effects in Sub-Saharan Africa. (researchsquare.com)
  • Not surprisingly, drought-related impacts varied across the country. (livescience.com)
  • 2019, 2020), outputs of rain-fed agriculture are at risk of influence by drought events. (researchsquare.com)
  • To gain a comprehensive understanding, researchers utilized in this study an array of remotely sensed vegetation indicators combined with climate data to examine how vegetation responds to drought across European biomes during the period from 2000 to 2020. (lu.se)
  • To reduce yield loss due to drought in the context of climate change, new varieties more resilient to drought and unreliable water supply were developed and introduced in countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. (cgiar.org)
  • A new report from the United Nations' body in charge of monitoring climate change details how global warming is already playing out on land to negative effect: magnifying heat waves and droughts and contributing to desertification and declining crop yields. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Our drought studies provide crucial knowledge that is needed when trying to minimise such negative effects of climate change. (sonnenseite.com)
  • But climate scientists are convinced that this extended, deadly drought has been caused by climate change. (juancole.com)
  • Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a rise in global temperatures that will cause an increase in the intensity and frequency of heat waves and the incidence of extreme weather conditions, such as flooding and droughts. (who.int)
  • Argentina's 2021/22 soybean yields in the core farm zone could come in below the drought-hit 2017/18 season if no major rains arrive, the Rosario grains exchange said in a weather report, underscoring how key the weeks ahead will be for the harvest. (esmmagazine.com)
  • In 2021, 38% of the crop was in drought conditions with a final yield of just 1 bushel below the trend line. (aei.ag)
  • The state's Sept. 1 yield estimates for corn, soybeans, and cotton are all down 27 to 35 percent from a year ago. (csmonitor.com)
  • Argentina's crop yields for corn and soybeans could continue to fall owing to the lack rains in the country's key growing regions to date, and the return of meaningful volumes could be delayed until mid-March causing significant yield losses, the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange (BAGE) said on Monday. (agricensus.com)
  • Yields could potentially end lower than the ones registered in the 2017/18 season, when soybeans dropped to 29 quintals/ha (2.9 mt/ha). (agricensus.com)
  • Argentina-based consultancy AZ Group told Agricensus that the early-planted corn crop in Argentina's core region is expected to see a reduction of 10-30% on yields when compared to initial estimates, while early planted soybeans are also expected to see large reductions in yields. (agricensus.com)
  • Indiana soybeans yielded 27.5 bu/ac, which was 11.5 bu less (30% reduction) than the trend yield (39 bu/ac). (purdue.edu)
  • Soybeans were planted at a fast pace in 1991 due to dry and drought conditions, but the yields were nearly unaffected (3% less than trend). (purdue.edu)
  • In North Africa , high temperatures and below-average rainfall have continued to affect croplands in April and as a result yield expectations are below the 5-year average ( April MARS Bulletin ). (agroportal.pt)
  • Drought: Lack of rainfall and soil moisture can exacerbate the effects of high temperatures. (michiganagconnection.com)
  • By monitoring factors like average temperatures and rainfall levels, farmers can gain insights into the duration and intensity of heat stress and drought conditions. (michiganagconnection.com)
  • Annual rainfall, kiremt rainfall, annual NDVI and Dev-NDVI, kiremt season Dev-NDVI, monthly Dev-NDVI (for June to October), and monthly SPI-1, SPI-3 and SPI-12 (for June to October) were considered as likely factors that could relate with yield and yield loss in the area. (researchsquare.com)
  • Therefore, drought characteristics in a certain region and time scale can be evaluated according to the rainfall and temperature, and corresponding measures can be taken to reduce the frequency and intensity of drought 6 . (nature.com)
  • However, the Rosario exchange warned that yields are likely to be slashed even further owing to the lack of rainfall in mid-February which has compromised grain filling. (agricensus.com)
  • Drought can be defined as the absence of rainfall or irrigation for a period of time sufficient to deplete soil moisture and cause dehydration in plant tissues. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rainfall is very seasonal and periodic drought occurs regularly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Drought refers to a meteorological disaster that causes insufficient soil moisture and damage to crop water balance due to long-term lack of precipitation. (nature.com)
  • 2) The drought intensity in the western region gradually increased (0.54-1.05) and drought events mainly occurred in the southwest plateau and central mountainous regions (24-47 times), means that drought meteorological hotspots were mainly concentrated in the Sichuan basin. (nature.com)
  • Meteorological drought. (cdc.gov)
  • A new study by an international group of researchers, including three scientists from the department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, offers critical insights into the immediate impact of meteorological drought on vegetation across Europe. (lu.se)
  • As the vegetation develops from spring to autumn, the sensitivity to meteorological drought increases, across all 7 investigated biomes, although the strength and time scale differs across regions. (lu.se)
  • Although soil water shortage strongly affects vegetation growth, the vegetation sensitivity to meteorological drought is is mainly related to vapor pressure and to some extent to the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • Although agricultural production has been possible in Uckermark for at least 1,000 years, the researchers' modelling predicts that over the next fifty years wheat and maize yields are likely to decline as modern mechanised agriculture accelerates erosion caused by tillage on slopes. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Drought conditions are still ongoing in southern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. (agroportal.pt)
  • That leads to problems like powdery mildew , it also means that water is used less efficiently than it could be, a major consideration in drought conditions. (questclimate.com)
  • Dehumidifiers are essential to maintaining optimal moisture levels in the grow room - and keeping you supplied with a good source of clean, readily accessible water even in drought conditions. (questclimate.com)
  • With a population of approximately 1,700 people and no industrial activity even in nearby villages, drought conditions between 2000 to 2003 had put the village back by almost 20 years. (artofliving.org)
  • The Colorado River Basin is seeing the driest conditions in more than 1,200 years, with the drought lasting over 22 years. (ktar.com)
  • The Bureau of Reclamation last year declared the first-ever Tier 1 shortage for the Colorado River, cutting more than 500,000 acre-feet of water from Arizona due to drought conditions. (ktar.com)
  • Buschatzke attributes the drought conditions to dry soil and higher temperatures in the west. (ktar.com)
  • In parallel, we performed a field trial wherein sorghum was evaluated across drought conditions. (nature.com)
  • An estimated 71% of the U.S. corn crop, nearly 74m acres, is in drought conditions. (aei.ag)
  • Each year, there are acres of the U.S. crop in drought conditions, and, without context, it's nearly impossible to determine if the current estimate of "XX million acres" is significant and meaningful. (aei.ag)
  • To overcome this, Figure 1 plots the share of the U.S. corn crop in dry (in blue) and drought (in orange) conditions as of the second week of July. (aei.ag)
  • On average, 14% of the corn crop is in dry conditions, and another 16% is in drought conditions. (aei.ag)
  • Figure 1 also shows that even in years like 2019 - which had the wet spring and prevented planting conditions - and 2004 - which had an all-time high departure from trendline yield - have a small share of the crop facing drought. (aei.ag)
  • Again, the key idea here is that even though top-level measures are similar, the underlying drought conditions aren't identical. (aei.ag)
  • Figure 3 plots the share of the U.S. soybean crop in dry and drought conditions since 2000. (aei.ag)
  • The base rate is an average of 13% of the crop experiencing some degree of drought each year and 14% in dry conditions. (aei.ag)
  • This means that, on average, a larger share of the corn crop is in drought conditions. (aei.ag)
  • The second way drought maps and estimates of acreage in peril can distort our thinking is that the relationship between final yields and drought conditions is murky (Figure 4). (aei.ag)
  • While the 2012 data point stands out, there have been years with widespread drought conditions but decent yields. (aei.ag)
  • Similarly, yield in 2005 (+3.8bpa) and 2006 (+2.9bpa) were above trend despite drought conditions across nearly 30% of acreage. (aei.ag)
  • Relationship Between U.S. Corn Yields and Drought Conditions. (aei.ag)
  • When it comes to drought maps and acreage of production affected, two questions should come to mind: 1) how do conditions compare to the base rate or average? (aei.ag)
  • For final yields, it will be several months before this is confidently known, but it's worth keeping in mind how the yield situation doesn't appear anywhere near 2012 declines despite drought conditions that - at least in these data - are arguably similar. (aei.ag)
  • Here we report the influence of drought on alfalfa yields and nutritional composition, based on artificially induced drought conditions during two field experiments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Under drought conditions, concentrations of acid detergent fibre (ADF) and neutral detergent fibre (NDF) were reduced in a range of forage legumes, while inconsistent changes were reported in crude protein (CP) concentrations [ 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It was concluded that inoculation could be a beneficial strategy in order for soybean to reveal better physiology and, consequently, better yield under moderate drought conditions and that the timing of drought stress occurrence is crucial regarding soybean's vigor and final seed yield. (hbsraevents.org)
  • These is results showed that based on correlation coefficient, path and factor analysis number of seeds per silique was the best criteria for rapeseed cultivar selection under non-stress conditions and silique length, number of seeds per silique and photosynthesis rate at flowering stage were the best criteria for selection and yield improvement under stress conditions. (ac.ir)
  • Planting a DT hybrid with a higher plant density may provide greater yield stability under water-limited conditions while also maintaining maximum yield potential when moisture is sufficient. (tamu.edu)
  • After 12 days under salt and drought conditions, the citrulline contents were increased in the tolerant CU 196 to 25.10 μ mol gDW −1 and 24.10 μ mol gDW −1 for salt and drought stresses, respectively. (hindawi.com)
  • 14 ] reported that the accumulated citrulline could contribute to the protection of green tissues from the secondary oxidative stress induced under drought conditions because it behaves in vitro as a more potent hydroxyl radical scavenger than compatible solutes like mannitol, proline, and glycine betaine. (hindawi.com)
  • In the present work, citrulline accumulation under salinity and drought conditions was compared, separately in tolerant and sensitive melons, with the alterations of proline, total amino acids, and osmotic potentials. (hindawi.com)
  • Rising global temperatures are affecting the intensity and frequency of heat waves and the incidence of extreme weather conditions such as flooding and droughts. (who.int)
  • Previous field-level experiments have demonstrated that drought decreases microbiome diversity in the root and rhizosphere. (nature.com)
  • Their calculations show that by continuing along a business as usual approach to tilling on slopes, farmers across the Uckermark region will see combined declines of winter wheat yields of up to 7.1 per cent within 50 years and up to 10 per cent over a century (in normal to dry years). (foodnavigator.com)
  • Our modelling shows that if we keep tilling our soils then we will see declines of crop yields at a regional scale - this will be worse during periods of droughts as thinner soils are less able to retain water for plants. (foodnavigator.com)
  • Estimation of genetic variability and efficiency of selection for grain yield. (slideshare.net)
  • Grain yield of maize (Zea mays L.) has low heritability under low soil nitrogen (low N) and drought, necessitating the use of secondary traits with strong associations with yield forselection. (iita.org)
  • At I 100 and I 75 , high plant density treatment had greater grain yield (9.1%) and WUE (9.4%) than low plant density. (tamu.edu)
  • While we have known that tillage moves significant amounts of soil down slopes, often exceeding the amount moved by water and wind erosion, we have known little about how the resulting thinning of the soils affects crop yields, until now. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The researchers used published information of crop thinning on crop yields and applied soil redistribution and crop growth models to examine the effects of tillage at a regional landscape scale. (foodnavigator.com)
  • This enabled them to determine whether the yield gains in the parts of the landscape that gained soil from erosion, the concave parts, outweighed the losses caused by thinning soils on slopes. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The researchers believe reductions in crop yields due to soil erosion are likely to apply across the world where tilling takes place on slopes. (foodnavigator.com)
  • The drought year resulted in its lowest yields from Kansas through Kentucky and impacted the eastern corn-belt worse than the western corn-belt. (illinois.edu)
  • With the continuous warming of global climate, the frequency and intensity of drought events have gradually increased, which seriously affects the survival of human beings and the sustainable development of society, from 1950 to 2000, the average disaster area in China was about 21.14 million hectares, accounting for 14.9 percent of the country's sown area. (nature.com)
  • Keep in mind that the drought monitor maps were started in 2000, so perhaps this relationship will be better understood with more years of data. (aei.ag)
  • The effect of drought is more prominent in sandy soils with low water holding capacity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The sediment yield data indicated an additive effect of drought and grazing treatments. (usda.gov)
  • Overall the worst of the drought relative to corn yields was centered in an area running from Kansas through Missouri and Southern Illinois, into southern Indiana and Kentucky. (illinois.edu)
  • Late season rains saved the 2012 crop and Indiana yielded 44.0 bu/ac (5.8 bu below yield trend, ~12% reduction). (purdue.edu)
  • After this past summer's drought in major corn-producing states, such as Indiana and Illinois, the U.S. corn harvest may establish 2005 as a hallmark year in the genetic modification of plants, industry experts said on September 29. (heartland.org)
  • Early season drought affects Haiti. (agroportal.pt)
  • This oversight is significant because understanding how drought affects vegetation growth at an ecosystem level is vital for crop planning, efficient water resource management, ecosystem restoration, and drought risk mitigation. (lu.se)
  • Drought seriously affects the yield and quality of apples . (bvsalud.org)
  • Also, a plant that was well-watered prior to being water-limited will usually survive a period of drought better than a continuously dehydration-stressed plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • In combination, these results suggest that the nutritive value of alfalfa will likely decrease after a period of drought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Alfalfa was used here to examine the effects of drought stress on the concentrations of CP, WSC and the fibre components NDF and ADF, which were chosen as indicators for nutritive value. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This legume is possibly less sensitive to drought than white clover, but more research is needed to predict the influence of drought stress on the nutritive value of alfalfa, which was one of the aims of this study. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In northern Europe, wetlands were the biome most sensitive to drought. (lu.se)
  • Historically, much of the research focused on overall annual vegetation responses to drought and recovery post-drought. (lu.se)
  • It is well known that forage legumes differ in drought stress sensitivity [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The strongest sensitivity to drought is found in southern and central Europe cropland, grassland, and deciduous forests. (lu.se)
  • States like Washington, California, and Oregon are seeing major drought issues- water is becoming increasingly scarce and restrictions are getting tighter. (questclimate.com)
  • Although, some parts are more vulnerable than the other, the intensity and frequency of droughts is increasing. (researchsquare.com)
  • More extreme weather patterns will increase the frequency of drought in some regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • In particular, certain regions are experiencing increased intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts, leaving a significant impact on society and ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • Mr. Gamble estimates his peanuts will yield only 200 to 800 pounds an acre compared with a normal 2,500 to 3,000 pounds. (csmonitor.com)
  • Her current focuses include estimates of crop yields, crop classification, and detection of management practices in Africa and India using a variety of satellite sensors including Landsat (NASA/USGS), Sentinel 1 and 2 (ESA), combined with crop modeling and machine learning techniques. (stanford.edu)
  • The drought produced significant reductions in water and sediment yield, and nutrient ion transport from the research plots. (usda.gov)
  • A plant that has been exposed to dehydration stress (hardened) previously and has recovered may become more drought resistant. (wikipedia.org)
  • The obtained dry mass yields of Gold Queen were higher than Suntory, and the first was also more resistant to drought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Cassava ( Manihot esculenta ), an edible tuberous root that is resistant to drought, diseases, and pests, is a major source of carbohydrates in tropical areas, the second most widely grown and consumed food in Uganda after bananas, and a staple in the diet for approximately 57% of the Uganda population ( Figure 1 ) ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Toward this end, we combined reductionist, transitional and ecological approaches, applied to the staple cereal crop sorghum to identify key root-associated microbes that robustly affect drought-stressed plant phenotypes. (nature.com)
  • In conclusion, a three-tiered experimental system successfully spanned the lab-to-field gap and identified beneficial and deleterious bacterial strains for sorghum under drought. (nature.com)
  • The results show that vegetation's correlation with drought varies in strength depending on the time scale and month of the year with the proportion of land susceptible to drought rises significantly during the peak growth months of summer and the autumn senescence. (lu.se)
  • A base index involving anthesis- silking interval, plant and ear aspects, earsper plant, and stay green characteristic is used for selection for yield under drought and low-N stresses. (iita.org)
  • Salt and drought stresses were started using 30-day-old plants, with 250 mM NaCI and 45 mM PEG (−1.0 MPa) and continued for 12 days. (hindawi.com)
  • Among the abiotic stresses, salinity and drought dramatically reduce plant growth and productivity, more than any other stress factors [ 4 , 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The main objective of this study was to find out whether citrulline can be used as a biochemical marker of salt and drought stresses in a melon screening studies. (hindawi.com)
  • H igher temperatures lead to lower rice yields as a result of shorter growing periods , and e xposure to high temperatures during rice flowering can greatly decrease pollen viability. (cgiar.org)
  • The severity and timing of drought periods were varied, and the crop was harvested either early during flowering, or late at full bloom. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The greenhouse effect has also transformed seasonal dry periods into year-long droughts. (lu.se)
  • But limited clean water availability doesn't have to doom you to lower plant yields. (questclimate.com)
  • Having validated this approach, we cross-referenced datasets from the high-throughput phenotyping and field experiments and report a list of bacteria with high confidence that positively associated with plant growth under drought stress. (nature.com)
  • From this observation, it was hypothesized that these Gram-positive (monoderm) bacteria display inherent physiological adaptation to drought as well as a response to plant metabolic changes under drought. (nature.com)
  • Breeding for drought resistance is the process of breeding plants with the goal of reducing the impact of dehydration on plant growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • A plant with a large mass of leaves in relation to the root system is prone to drought stress as the leaves may lose water faster than the roots can supply it. (wikipedia.org)
  • Drought stress can have variable effects on plant content. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Stay green characteristic was unreliable for selecting drought tolerant genotypes while ears per plant and anthesis-silking interval were not among the reliable traits for selecting low-N tolerant genotypes. (iita.org)
  • If the drought kills a pasture, you could plant winter wheat or rye in late summer (early September), providing there is sufficient autumn moisture for establishment and growth. (missouri.edu)
  • What are some fall grazing forage options to plant if the drought "breaks" between now and mid-August? (missouri.edu)
  • We conducted four-year field studies (20112014) to investigate yield, crop evapotranspiration (ETc), and water-use efficiency (WUE) in one conventional (N58L) and one DT hybrid (N59B-DT) under three water regimes (I 100 , I 75 , and I 50 , where the subscripts were the percentage of irrigation applied relative to meeting full ETc) and three plant densities. (tamu.edu)
  • Comparing hybrids, N59B-DT had greater yield (5.9%) and WUE (7.3%) than N58L at high plant density. (tamu.edu)
  • At I 50 , increasing plant density reduced yield (14.1%) for N58L but did not affect yield for N59B-DT. (tamu.edu)
  • The local plant genotypes in arid and semiarid regions have become interesting plant material for salinity and drought improvement studies. (hindawi.com)
  • Only tobacco is showing signs of better yields than last year, says Mr. Hammer. (csmonitor.com)
  • The South American country, the world's no. 1 exporter of processed soybean oil and meal, has been hit by spells of drought since late last year and the drought seems to have taken hold again this month with little sign of major rains over the next week. (esmmagazine.com)
  • Since a drought can strike any year, anywhere, it makes sense to come up with a sustainable plan for helping your garden survive through the driest summers. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • As a result of these seminars, 30 percent of the farmers adopted the natural farming methods and the village had almost doubled its agricultural yield that year. (artofliving.org)
  • BCR highlighted soybean yields in Argentina's core area - or also called as nucleus area - were pegged at 31.8 quintals/ha (3.18 mt/ha), compared with 31.1 quintals/ha (3.11 mt/ha) by the end of February last year. (agricensus.com)
  • The only other time I'd lived in San Francisco was during the then-unusual drought year of 1976. (tomdispatch.com)
  • Research was conducted on twelve plots with artificial drought and natural precipitation for one year. (usda.gov)
  • Farmers have gathered some 3.0 million tonnes of wheat this year, which puts average yield from the 1.95 million hectares at 1.55 tonnes per hectare, ministry data showed. (seenews.com)
  • The only year with a faster pace was another drought year-2012. (purdue.edu)
  • The federal government is predicting corn production this year will be the second-highest in U.S. history, despite the droughts. (heartland.org)
  • This year [brought] the fourth-driest summer in 100 years, with over 60 percent of the U.S. grain belt in a drought, yet we're seeing yields that are far greater than before," said Tim Hannagan, senior grain analyst at Alaron Trading Corp., a Chicago-based futures trading firm. (heartland.org)
  • This year, the government's predicted yield is 10.6 billion bushels. (heartland.org)
  • D rought is one of the major causes of low rice yield in sub-Saharan Africa, where rice production is largely rainfed. (cgiar.org)
  • While warming has resulted in more frequent, intense, and longer heat waves in most land areas, specific regions, like much of Africa and South America, have also been hit by worsening droughts. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Ethiopia is a Sub-Saharan country in East Africa largely susceptible to droughts. (researchsquare.com)
  • However, there is limited and inconsistent knowledge available about the influence of drought stress on the nutritive value of alfalfa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Issues such as nitrate accumulation and reduced nutritive value often cause problems for farmers using drought-damaged forages. (missouri.edu)
  • Whether you're in the middle of a drought-stricken area or are simply looking for ways to upgrade your garden to handle a lack of moisture in coming seasons, now is a great time to embark on some improvements that can help your garden use water more efficiently and effectively. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • When it comes to watering your garden, how you water is just as important as how frequently you water, especially during a drought. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • With the increasing shortage of water resources, drought has become one of the hot issues of global concern. (nature.com)
  • Wilhite and Glantz (1985) pointed out that drought usually occurs when an area does not get enough precipitation for a long time, leading to water shortages 3 . (nature.com)
  • During drought stress, plants colonized by Arthrobacter had reduced growth and leaf water content. (nature.com)
  • The fraction of water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) was least affected by drought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • After the drought there was a nonsignificant increase in water and sediment yield, and nutrient transport from the drought treatment plots. (usda.gov)
  • The grazing treatments were found to have significantly greater water and sediment yield, and nutrient transport than the ungrazed after the drought. (usda.gov)
  • The observed significant increases in water and sediment yield, and reduced water quality from the treatments were compared against controls plots. (usda.gov)
  • Runoff, sediment yield, and an array of nutrient ions in the runoff water were measured for three years from the lysimeters. (usda.gov)
  • After the drought the grazing treatments showed significantly greater water and sediment yield, and nutrient transport than the ungrazed. (usda.gov)
  • The information can strengthen the information base for planning of water management and drought responsiveness. (lu.se)
  • Treatment with GABA reduced the relative electrical conductivity and MDA content of leaves induced by drought stress and significantly increased the relative water content of leaves. (bvsalud.org)
  • The absolute greatest threat to well-functioning water management is drought", he says. (lu.se)
  • Besides drought and pollution, he points out a third factor that cannot be described as a threat, but that nonetheless hampers the development and renewal of the water industry. (lu.se)
  • The accumulation of citrulline in response to drought stress in wild watermelon is a unique phenomenon in C3 plants [ 13 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • GABA also reduced the accumulation of superoxide anions and hydrogen peroxide in leaf tissues under drought and increased the activities of POD, SOD, and CAT and the content of GABA . (bvsalud.org)
  • Exogenous treatment with GABA acted through the accumulation of abscisic acid (ABA) in the leaves to significantly decrease stomatal conductance and increase the stomatal closure rate, and the levels of expression of ABA-related genes PYL4, ABI1, ABI2, HAB1, ABF3, and OST1 changed in response to drought . (bvsalud.org)
  • Drought is a major environmental disaster that causes crop yield loss worldwide. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This means that the 2012 yield of 105 bushels is 62% of the 169 bushel trend yield. (illinois.edu)
  • If 2012 could be repeated 20 times, the average of the yields would be close to 169 bushels per acre. (illinois.edu)
  • Last year's yield of 11.81 billion bushels remains the U.S. record. (heartland.org)
  • Ten years ago, without genetically altered corn, [the drought] may have cut production by two to two and a half billion bushels," Hannagan said. (heartland.org)
  • Decreasing crop maturity duration by 10% decreased yields at all the three sites. (icrisat.org)
  • This yield increase for the longer duration cultivar was 11 to 18% at Akola, 17 to 19% at Indore and 6 to 7% at Samanko in current and future climates of the sites. (icrisat.org)
  • The recent dry spell and high temperatures have raised concerns among farmers and experts about their potential impact on wheat yields. (michiganagconnection.com)
  • Assessing the Impact: The impact of drought and high temperatures on wheat yields can vary depending on the location and the specific growth stage of the crop. (michiganagconnection.com)
  • However, if you keep light usage controlled so that temperatures maintain at ideal levels, plants won't overheat, become stressed, and give you lower yields. (questclimate.com)
  • Drought is a major abiotic stress limiting agricultural productivity. (nature.com)
  • Adoption of drought-tolerant (DT) hybrids is a viable strategy for maize production in drought-prone environments. (tamu.edu)
  • This has a negative effect on technology adoption, yields and output market participation, as farmers may not have the means to hire vehicles to ferry inputs in good time in order to carry out their agriculture operations in time. (lu.se)
  • Last week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated that yields in Georgia would reach only 1,900 pounds per acre - down 30 percent from last year's yield. (csmonitor.com)
  • Most of the states in the western corn-belt had below average yields. (illinois.edu)
  • While below trend, yields in the western corn-belt were not as poor as in the eastern corn-belt. (illinois.edu)
  • Because the corn-belt was impacted, lower total supplies of corn occurred as a result of this drought. (illinois.edu)
  • A center here would have impacted all of the corn-belt in a much worse way, potentially causing the western corn-belt to have as low of yields as the eastern corn-belt. (illinois.edu)