One genetically engineered, drought resistant corn variety has been commercialized in the United States and many more are in field testing.
The uptake of more radical innovations, such as drought resistant GM crops, is another solution to increase food production, suggests Agrimonde's report.
In such places, so-called "Xeriscaping, " an approach to landscaping that uses native, drought resistant vegetation, makes a great deal more sense--at least if local municipal laws allow it.
Anti-GMO campaigners are clearly positioning themselves for another offensive against a new wave of GM crops and foods, with new pesticide tolerant grain varieties and a host of nutritionally enhanced grains, such as Golden Rice and drought resistant wheat, in their crosshairs.
The green roof is a four-layer, matlike system topped with drought-resistant sedum.
They hope, for example, to produce drought-resistant and cold-resistant plants, in order to extend the range over which they can be planted.
This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much irrigation as conventional wheat, and in some deserts can be cultivated with rainfall alone.
Erosion-control practices and drought-resistant crop hybrids are just two examples of ways in which modern agriculture attempts to mitigate the impacts of severe drought.
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Although it is true that drought-resistant seeds will be needed as will low-chill fruit trees and root crops they are not likely to come from genetic engineering.
The firm's drought-resistant sedum-planted roof is featured in the book.
The search for nonfood fuel plants in Asia has led researchers to jatropha, a tough, drought-resistant shrub that produces toxic but oily seeds that can be made into diesel.
Researchers at Monsanto and elsewhere are working quietly on the next potential breakthrough in agriculture: drought-resistant crops, which are meant to help farmers cope in an increasingly water-scarce world.
D. in plant virology from the University of Bath in the U.K. in 1991, she tried various conventional hybridization techniques to outbreed the viruses that wipe out the otherwise drought-resistant and energy-rich tuber.
The pilot project will include about 10, 000 households, and these residents could create an online account to not only view their reports but also browse rebates offered by the water district to buy water-efficient household items such as clothes washers and toilets or to change the landscaping of their lawns to use drought-resistant, native plants.
Lawn and golf-course grass will be tougher, trees more resistant to drought, or adapted to clean up contaminated soil.
There is demand from farmers, not just in this country but around the world, for seeds which can produce higher yields, are resistant to drought and rely less on fertilizers.
Imagine if GM could be used to create crops that produced higher yields, or were resistant to drought or could even fix their own nitrogen and produce their own fertiliser.
Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated.
The question at the heart of the case was how to apply a judicially created doctrine that originated in the 19th century to 21st-century innovations like drought- and insect-resistant crops, which require hundreds millions of dollars to develop but which can be readily copied millions of times because they consist of genetic or other easily replicable material.
The plan also involves developing crops resistant to environmental stresses, particularly drought and salinity.
Two trials had shown this to be disease-resistant, early-maturing (a vital trait under post-Mitch crisis conditions) and drought-tolerant.
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