Gail Taylor Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:21:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 University of Southampton to Develop Crops that Use Less Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/university-of-southampton-to-develop-crops-that-use-less-water-20121112/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/university-of-southampton-to-develop-crops-that-use-less-water-20121112/#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:21:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27978 As humanity pushes further into the future, and considering the implications of an already-warming climate, considerations are being taken into the kind of crops that we’ll need. Genetic engineering has led to crops that are bug- and disease-resistant, which has increased food production in some areas. Southampton University, in the UK, has just been funded […]

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