Utah water officials and state lawmakers traveled to the Negev Desert to learn about agriculture in some of the planet’s harshest conditions. Read about their trip.
Across Israel, academic and research institutions are conducting experiments on types of crops that can use less water and still yield a good crop for people to eat.
Genes contain all the instructions an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. But identifying a gene and learning what it does are two different things. Scientists don’t know what kinds of instructions many genes contain their functions are unknown.