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Educated big data to study sensitivity to drought

Climate change increases the frequency and severity of drought in many agricultural regions. A novel big-data approach has been designed to shed light on the interactions between agronomic and environmental factors affecting the sensitivity of crop yields to drought.

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Fig. 1: Response curves across different levels of analysis.

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Tardieu, F. Educated big data to study sensitivity to drought. Nat Food 1, 669–670 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00187-4

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