Super Plants Need Super Roots
February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release:
Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world's energy each year.
A new program hopes to develop better crops -- super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The program, ROOTS, or Rhizosphere O . . .
Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all U.S. water. Making fertilizers uses 1 to 2 percent of all the world's energy each year.
A new program hopes to develop better crops -- super plants that are drought-resistant, use less fertilizer and remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The program, ROOTS, or Rhizosphere O . . .