Prehistoric DNA being dug up to see if it can help modern-day crops cope with climate change

Sky Newson mai 6, 2024

EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY MAY 6 File photo dated 05/08/20 of a combine harvester cutting a crop of spring barley in a field near Ashford, Kent. Plant biologists in Edinburgh are set to work with European scientists to determine whether microbes from hundreds of thousands of years ago can help present-day plant species adapt to climate change. The Heriot-Watt University team has been awarded £500,000 by Horizon Europe, a European Union scientific research initiative, to work on the four-year proje

Prehistoric plant DNA is being dug up from deep below the Arctic to see if it can help modern-day crops cope with the effects of climate change.

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