Might it be possible to make better plants more quickly than we do today? And without the public objection that accompanies genetic manipulation? Climate change means that this is now an urgent question. The EU funded ABSTRESS project is intended to address it. “Climate change means that we don’t know whether next year’s harvest will be affected by floods or by drought. So we need more resilient crops,” project coordinator Adrian Charlton tells youris.com, referring to the need to reduce EU’s dependency on imports.
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