In the DNA of plants lies the solution to continue farming in the era of climate crisis

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The article explores how plant DNA research can help agriculture adapt to climate change and extreme weather. It highlights work on wheat and barley varieties that already show resilience to drought, floods, and disease. It also explains assisted evolution technologies as a way to transfer naturally occurring beneficial mutations into other crops without inserting foreign DNA. The piece stresses that regulation and access will determine whether these tools help public researchers and farmers broadly or concentrate power in a few companies.

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