Can crops be developed that can survive extreme droughts without sacrificing yields?
Julia Engelhorn, junior professor of plant genomics and climate change adaptation at the University of Montpellier, explains how plant genes determine drought tolerance, why resilience often comes at a cost in terms of yield, and how CRISPR technology could help rebalance this trade-off.
The podcast is available here.
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