Features
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October 23, 2008 - 3:00am
New York Times - October 23, 2008 by ANDREW POLLACK
Jacqueline Heard directs Monsanto's program for drought-tolerant crops at its research center in Mystic, Conn. GRAND ISLAND, Neb. To satisfy the world's growing demand for food, scientists are trying to pull off a genetic trick that nature itself has had trouble accomplishing in millions of years of evolution. They want to create varieties of corn, wheat and other crops that can thrive with little water.
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October 1, 2008 - 3:00am
Biofuels Canada - October 2008 issue
"Creating a local source of fuel in a province with limited fossil fuel supplies, [would] provide additional economic activity in the area around the plant," Cumming said.
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April 11, 2008 - 3:00am
SCIENCE VOL 320 11 APRIL 2008 -Researchers probe the secrets of how plants cope with water stress to improve crop yields.
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.