Tagged: drought tolerance

1. 01 The plant · 6 May 2026 Why Rooibos Has Been So Hard to Sequence, and Why the Ministry Wants It Done Rooibos carries a genome roughly a billion base pairs long, packed with the same tannin-like compounds that make its tea, and those compounds fight every attempt to read its DNA. Here is what scientists have found so far, and why a finished genome matters for a crop already running short on stress tolerance.
2. 02 The place · 19 Feb 2026 Rooibos Fields Run on Winter Rain. One Farm Now Irrigates at Scale. Once planted out, rooibos is grown on Cederberg winter rain. Water condensing in its shallow root zone may help it through summer, and one farm now irrigates at scale.