crops
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You Don’t Win Friends With Space Salad
If you’re ever on your lunch break in space, you might actually want to stay away from the salad. A team of scientists grew lettuce in a simulated microgravity environment on Earth and found that plants have a hard time protecting themselves against harmful bacteria in space. Space lettuce has been a hit on board…
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U.S. Midwest Soil Is Eroding Faster Than Ever, Modern Farming Could Be to Blame
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The U.S. Wheat Crop Is in Trouble
Wheat farmers across the U.S. are facing lower yields as 98% of the country’s wheat crop is in areas experiencing drought.
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Evidence Of 10,000-Year-Old Crops Points To The Amazon As An Early Agricultural Hotspot
Archaeologists have pinpointed four independent regions where humans first began cultivating crops: China, the Middle East, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. We can now add southwestern Amazonia to this exclusive list, owing to new evidence of plant domestication in the region.