October 2024 | Desert Botanical Garden

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Month: October 2024

New paper published by former PhD student Dr. Giacomo Mozzi

New paper published by former PhD student Dr. Giacomo Mozzi

October 28, 2024

Plants have evolved many different ways to cope with limited resources and have allowed plants to survive and even thrive in stressful environments such as deserts. One way to cope with drought is to construct tissues that can store large amounts of water that can be...
New paper published by Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Brad Posch

New paper published by Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Brad Posch

October 27, 2024

The summer of 2023 in Phoenix, AZ, was (at the time) the hottest ever recorded. But it’s not just in the southwest United States where record-breaking temperatures are becoming more common; heatwaves are increasingly longer, hotter, and occurring more often around the...
Fall Planting for Summer Success

Fall Planting for Summer Success

October 2, 2024

Did you know that when you plant in the desert southwest, the timing can greatly impact the survival rate of your plants? Fall is the perfect season for planting, boasting a remarkable 95% survival rate, whereas summer planting only offers a mere 40% survival rate....
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