How we can make crops survive without water

Title:: How we can make crops survive without water
Speaker:: Jill Farrant
Description:: 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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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 13:56

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