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How Computational Biology Is Zoning in on the Future of Agriculture — Global Issues

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Megan Matthews
  • Opinion by Megan Matthews (champaign, illinois)
  • Inter Press Service

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, May 22 (IPS) – When pioneering agronomist and father of the “Green Revolution” Norman Borlaug set out to breed a disease-resistant, high-yielding variety of wheat, he spent years laboriously planting and pollinating different specimens by hand. He manually catalogued every outcome until he landed on the variety that would transform farming and avert famine. The result was even greater than expected: it is estimated that he saved more than a billion people worldwide from starvation.

Megan Matthews, a principal investigator with the Enabling Nutrient Symbioses in Agriculture (ENSA) project and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois

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