When plants are allowed to sit in waterlogged soil, their roots lose the ability to extract oxygen and begin to die. This, in turn, allows fungal spores to spread through the root system and ...

When hand weeding, the key is to remove each weed in its entirety. Hold the weed from the stem, pull and twist to gently remove the whole plant from the root system. Once weeded, you can put a mulch ...

As a crop that can be grown on every continent, we have come to rely on it heavily. But there’s a catch. Requiring waterlogged paddy fields to grow, rice is an extraordinarily thirsty crop.

rice needs waterlogged, boggy soils, and sorghum, millets and teff can grow in hot, dry tropical places. Cereal plants have to be planted every year and at the end of the summer, when they have ...

Caption Scientists have discovered how microbes in waterlogged soils produce high levels of ethylene, which can adversely affect agricultural crops and bioenergy feedstocks like switchgrass. This ...