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Could More Efficient Crops Feed a Growing, Warmer World?
2013-09-04 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In the shadow of a boisterous debate about the safety of growing crops that have been genetically modified, otherwise known as GMOs, the potential of good old-fashioned crossbreeding has been making quite a stir in the agricultural community. A group of researchers recently took a closer look at the genome of sorghum, a drought-tolerant grass crop that feeds half a billion people in Asia and parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike its super-cultivated cousins--corn, rice and soy--sorghum still grows...
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