Tuesday 4 November 2014

This High-Tech Greenhouse Tests What Crops Will Survive Climate Change

This High-Tech Greenhouse Tests What Crops Will Survive Climate Change

It may have a glass roof and be filled with plants, but the Advanced Crop Lab at the Durham, North Carolina, headquarters of agricultural biotech firm Syngenta does a lot more than a typical greenhouse. Scientists can program its dozens of rooms with individual climates in order to test new crops that might flourish in our sweltering, drought-filled future.


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from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/4022aa8e/sc/31/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C110Cadvanced0Ecrop0Elab0C/story01.htm

via Science News

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