There appeared to be many harbingers of a dismal future for the industry

The next four columns vary that distance from 30-70 km in 10-km increments. As can be seen in Panel A, the impact of an additional fire is considerably larger when we focus on nearer fires, but this pattern of results no longer holds when we standardize our outcome measure based on the variability of test …

This indicates that the hydrogel did help increase drought tolerance in the tomato plants

In controlled greenhouse conditions, we grew tomato plants from seeds for two weeks and then thinned the plants to one individual per pot where pots either contained soil treated with 0.4 wt % hydrogel mixed in the top half of the soil, near the plant root zone, or were untreated controls. We continued watering the plants …