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"Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat
and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains,
fruit and vegetable varieties to get larger harvests and plants better able to
tolerate different climates.
But climate change is going to bring enormous disruption to the plants we rely
on. A hotter world. Drier in some places. Wetter in others. Intensified
droughts. More fire. Sudden torrential rain.
We’re going to need plants with even greater resilience. But can it be done?
We believe so. Our team has been working to climate-proof five popular fruits –
banana, the single most commonly bought item in supermarkets, as well as
pineapple, passionfruit, custard apples and paw paw. We’ve already done this
with chickpeas to produce new, more resilient varieties."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
