Sugar beet seeds are a necessary component in the development of sugar beets, which are a major source of sugar globally. From planting to harvest, a wide range of factors, including genomic and ...

Water is the limiting factor for agriculture in many of the world’s semiarid regions, where crops are lost to drought in their early stages of life, during germination and as young seedlings.

Extreme climate events mean crops are increasingly stressed by drought—especially during the crucial stages of seed germination. Inspired by chia seeds’ natural coating, which swells into a gel when ...