Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47 percent
- Written by Paul South, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Genetically engineered tobacco plants growing in a greenhouse.Paul South, CC BY-NDCan you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France going hungry?
You don’t need to imagine. That is exactly what happens every day when an estimated 815 million people around the globe go hungry....
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