The next step to solve this problem is to produce salt-tolerant crops. It is believed that the prodcution not only of salt but also drought and cold tolerant crops will reduce the need for added farm acreage by increasing agriculturl yields that will provide ... nough for a world population that is expected to nearly double ....2050
Increasing The Food Quality Of Crops:
Some progress has also been made to increase the food Auality of crops. Soybeans have been developed that mainly produce the monounsaturated fatty acid, oleic acid, a change that may improve human health. These altered plants also produce Vernolic acid and ricinoleic acid, derivatives of oleic acid that can be used as hardens in plants and plastics. The necessary genes were derived from Verninia and castor bean seeds and were transferred into the soybean genomes.
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