PUBLISHED: 16 April 2024      Last Edited: 16 April 2024

Compare and contrast: Golden-hour water use efficiency: Pioneering crop productivity and sustainability in the face of water scarcity

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A research team has shed light on the early morning ‘golden hours’ as a pivotal time for achieving optimal water use efficiency (WUE) in crops, revealing that plants can maintain lower transpiration rates and higher photosynthetic activity under favorable light conditions and minimal vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Click here to continue reading