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How we can make crops survive without water

Jill Farrant · TED

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As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" -- super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal>Geneva
Speaker
Jill Farrant
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Chemistry, Biology, Earth and environment
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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