{"title":"Growing food with less water: Chilean research team finds solutions in extreme environments","authors":"A. Webb","doi":"10.53014/chus2517","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Droughts pose a growing risk to food security. Glasshouse experiments show that tomatoes inoculated with rhizobacteria from ephemeral flowering desert plants exhibit greater rates of survival and growth when subjected to periods of water stress.","PeriodicalId":393895,"journal":{"name":"Water Science Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Water Science Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53014/chus2517","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Droughts pose a growing risk to food security. Glasshouse experiments show that tomatoes inoculated with rhizobacteria from ephemeral flowering desert plants exhibit greater rates of survival and growth when subjected to periods of water stress.