Scientists may have found the key to developing flood-resistant crops

Rice is the only major food crop that can survive flooding, but a new genetic study from UC Riverside may ultimately lead to the creation of additional flood-resistant crops. The potential breakthrough comes at a time when climate change is pushing rainfall patterns to the extremes.  "This is the first time that a flooding response has been looked at in a way that was this comprehensive, across evolutionarily different species," said study co-author Professor Siobhan Brady. For the investigation, the researchers examined how a wild-growing tomato, a …