Sentences with phrase «plant during the dry season»
He says the situation where farmers produce only during the rainy season and do not plant during the dry season is untenable.
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In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.
«Our results show that increased PsbS expression allows crop plants to be more conservative with water use, which we think will help to better distribute available water resources over the duration of the growing season and keep the crop more productive during dry spells.»
During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.
«Most tropical forests are exposed to one or even two dry seasons and, during these dry periods, plants can strongly suffer from the lack of water — they grow less, wilt or even dry out.»
A drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period during which there is not enough water to meet the needs of people, animals, and plants.5 Drought is not simply the absence of rainfall — it also includes a lack of surface moisture and irrigation water at critical points in the growing season for crops.