Crop Scientists Are Racing to ID the Wild Relatives of Common Food Crops to Create a Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture

Across the globe, botanists are working to identify what scientists call "crop wild relatives"—the weedy cousins of our staple foods.


The threat from climate change to food production is at the center of this new urgency. As droughts, extreme rainstorms, and other erratic weather patterns intensify, farmers will need crops that can cope with such stresses. And plants that are wild or weedy—proven survivors—have the traits to meet those challenges.  http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-2-march-april/feature/crop-scientists-are-racing-id-wild-relatives-common-food-crops
Article courtesy of sierraclub.org by Jason Mark