date:Nov 26, 2012
ceive a bonus at market, based on the oil content of their seed. If this technology translates from laboratory to field, we estimate it could be worth an extra 40 million per year to farmers in the UK alone.
The work could have wider implications for global food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) forecasts that global food production will need to increase by over 40 per cent by 2030, and 70 per cent by 2050. Even now in the second decade of the 21st cent