Michigan State: Can Crops Become More Efficient?
March 17, 2021
March 17, 2021
EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 17 (TNSRes) -- Michigan State University issued the following news release on March 16, 2021:
Plants were evolving for hundreds of millions of years before humans started cultivating them for food.
So when the first farmers showed up some 12,000 years ago, plants had already picked up some inefficiencies -- that is, adaptations that helped the plants survive but also limited their productivity as crops.
Today, some of those ine . . .
Plants were evolving for hundreds of millions of years before humans started cultivating them for food.
So when the first farmers showed up some 12,000 years ago, plants had already picked up some inefficiencies -- that is, adaptations that helped the plants survive but also limited their productivity as crops.
Today, some of those ine . . .