Fig.1. Wild turkeys in Oklahoma (Credit: Larry Smith via Flickr, 2015) |
For this Thanksgiving, researchers are turning to wild animal and crop relatives to improve biodiversity. From smartphones to frozen seeds, read more about how new technology will preserve agriculture in a warming world:
- Archaeological samples and ancient DNA show that the turkey has a long history in the Americas, but traveled to Europe before it was a Thanksgiving staple: “Your Thanksgiving Turkey Is A Quintessentially American Bird: An Immigrant,” Smithsonian Magazine (24 November 2015)
- Climate change, financial woes, and regional violence threaten our ability to protect food security. Gene banks offer a home to preserve and study biodiversity for the coming centuries: “Breakfast In Post-Apocalypse America: Inside Colorado’s Fort Knox of Food,” Newsweek (19 November 2015)
- How do you fight crop disease in the 21st century? These researchers created a smartphone app with 50,000 open-access photos of crop diseases to give farmers immediate access to information: “Smartphones To Battle Crop Disease,” EurekAlert! (24 November 2015)
- For sunflower scientists, the ‘unknowns’ of ancient, wild plants provide a way to save modern crops: “Seeking Crop Elders,” Earth Island Journal (23 November 2015)
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