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Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change

Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable. The post Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change appeared first on Nautilus.

reen is the color of growth in the plant world. From an aerial view, most farms blanket the land in quilts of varying shades of green. But what if the stems and leaves of your average corn, barley, and rice plants were hairy and blue instead? One team of scientists thinks it could help make

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