{"id":24430,"date":"2022-08-12T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24430"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T21:00:53","slug":"common-weed-may-be-super-plant-that-holds-key-to-drought-resistant-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/08\/common-weed-may-be-super-plant-that-holds-key-to-drought-resistant-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Common weed may be &#8216;super plant&#8217; that holds key to drought-resistant crops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the ways that producers might be able to adapt to the changing climate is by producing new crop varieties that are more resistant to drought, since drought is expected to increase in the future as temperatures get warmer and evaporation and evapotranspiration increase. Plant breeders are looking for   plants that have characteristics that they might be able to incorporate into future crops. This <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-08-common-weed-super-key-drought-resistant.amp?fbclid=IwAR375Q0g9z1Nh_D5duWewK6JQveZ5YwfYAJG8rPq6lrG-ePuJfCKKC15hB8\">interesting story<\/a> in <em>Physics Today<\/em> describes one such plant, purslane, and how its unique chemistry integrates two distinct metabolic pathways to create a novel type of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photosynthesis\/\">photosynthesis<\/a>\u00a0that enables the weed to endure\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drought\/\">drought<\/a>\u00a0while remaining highly productive, according to a report in the August 5 edition of the journal\u00a0<em>Science Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/08\/purslane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/08\/purslane.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/08\/purslane.jpg 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/08\/purslane-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/08\/purslane-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Portulaca oleracea, an edible plant grown almost any where in the United States. Blooms yellow, small flowers. Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/wiki\/User:ZooFari\">ZooFari<\/a>\/Wikimedia Commons,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways that producers might be able to adapt to the changing climate is by producing new crop varieties that are more resistant to drought, since drought is expected to increase in the future as temperatures get warmer and evaporation and evapotranspiration increase. Plant breeders are looking for plants that have characteristics that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":24431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24432,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions\/24432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}