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The Blue Revolution, Drop By Drop, Gene by Gene
April 11, 2008   
Science
Eight years ago, then U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a "Blue Revolution" in agriculture. With Earth's water resources under strain, population growth booming, and desertification increasing, the need to wring more crops out of dry land is becoming urgent, Annan said in his April 2000 Millennium Address.

No Water, No Cry
July 6, 2006   
Canadian Foundation of Innovation
A thriving partnership between the University of Toronto and Performance Plants Inc. sows the seeds for a new generation of drought-tolerant crops

Drought Protected Plants
July 18, 2005
Chemistry and Industry, July 2005
A laboratory accident led to the development of drought-tolerant commercial crops that do not suffer from yield reduction during water surpluses. Patrick Walter reports...

Drought Won't Wilt these Crops
February 2005
Country Guide, February 2005
A drought resistant canola plant that could maintain or increase yields while battling drought could mean large gains for the Canadian canola industry. Mark Oddan reports ...

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