8 septiembre 2014
With climate change threatening global food supplies, new research claims the rich flora of China could be crucial to underpin food security in the future. A team has identified 871 wild plant species native to China that have the potential to adapt and maintain 28 globally important crops, including rice, wheat, soybean, sorghum, banana, apple, citrus fruits, grape, stone fruits and millet. 42% of these wild plant species, known as crop wild relatives occur nowhere else in the world.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/RWqwScJeZjk/140908121007.htm
