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2009-04-21 | permalink
How GE crops can save the world
In the poorest nations of the tropics and subtropics — areas that are home to nearly half of the human population — rising temperatures from global climate change promise to devastate staple crops, such as rice and maize, by the end of the century. ”There is a chance that we might be able to stem the effects on plant yield from this climate change,” said L. Curtis Hannah, a plant molecular biology researcher at the University of Florida. ”But a betting man knows that our best chance is to learn to adapt — to develop crops that will feed people in a hotter climate.”
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2009-04-21 | permalink
How GE crops can save the world
In the poorest nations of the tropics and subtropics — areas that are home to nearly half of the human population — rising temperatures from global climate change promise to devastate staple crops, such as rice and maize, by the end of the century. ”There is a chance that we might be able to stem the effects on plant yield from this climate change,” said L. Curtis Hannah, a plant molecular biology researcher at the University of Florida. ”But a betting man knows that our best chance is to learn to adapt — to develop crops that will feed people in a hotter climate.”
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