When stomates close the plant can no longer keep itself cool and leaves heat up, causing stress. Make sure that you are providing water through irrigation if there is not timely rain. Increasing soil ...
Abnormal dry and hot conditions can cause stress for crop production during critical growth stages with implications of yield loss, profit loss and livestock management concerns. The Purdue Extension ...
Potatoes, a critical non-grain food crop, are highly susceptible to heat stress. Image Credit: nednapa/Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in Global Change Biology, researchers ...
Richard Percy notes that heat stress occurs in cotton plants at some point every season in the humid Deep South and in the dry desert West. Now research leader of the Crop Germplasm Research Unit ...
Crop conditions ... soybeans are under severe stress. “We haven’t had rain now for quite some time, if we have its been very spotty where we’ve gotten it. The heat keeps rising around ...
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s soybean and corn crops will have to endure a heat wave over the next few days that will affect their yields, leading meteorologist German Heinzenknecht ...