Cheaper food from fewer fertilisers
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Increasing Perennial Rice Yields Through Plant Breeding
Perennial rice has been in the ground now in China for eight harvests, it's two harvests a year. Our goal is at least three years. We know that these are kind of herbaceous perennials when they probably will have to be replanted. But for wheat, that's a third as many passes across the field with your tractor. So far we haven't run into any really big disease issues.
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