She was describing one of many problems plant geneticists are trying to tackle. Add to unseasonable temperatures, drought, flooding, disease, pests and a growing global population that will require farmers to grow more food on less land with more efficiency, and it’s enough to, well, as one headline stated: “Summer heat can lead to summer depression.”
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