Coming to a cornfield near you

Scientific American: DROUGHT-RESISTANT CORN: Monsanto is seeking approval of the first strain of corn that tolerates drought. Climate change has yet to diminish crop yields in the U.S. corn belt but scientists expect drought to become more common due to global warming in coming years. That could impact everything from the price of food to the price of fuel planet-wide. As a result, for the last several years agribusiness giants like Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta have been pursuing genetic modification to enable the......

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