Thanks to researchers at the University of California – Riverside, a large portion of the Earth’s current non-hospitable soil can now become inhabitable by food crops, taking pressure off of one of the most pressing problems facing the expansion of human life – overpopulation and limited resources.
Scientists at the university have developed a method to tweak a single gene in plants to make them tolerant of aluminum, a metal toxic to most crop plants which prevents the plants from growing in areas with high traces of the element. Continue reading
