TED Talks

Jill Farrant: How We Can Make Crops Survive Without Water (2016x11)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 19, 2016

As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" -- super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?