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(2023.Ever since humanity began to farm our own food,we've faced the
unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.It comes and goes without
much warning,and a field of leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away
the next.Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain,and nowhere
more so than in Africa,where 96%of farmland depends on rain instead of the
irrigation common in more-developed places.It has consequences:South
Africa's ongoing drought-the worst in three decades-will cost it at least a
quarter of its corn harvest this year.
Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cap Town in South Africa says that
nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with
unpredictable rainfall.She is hard at work finding a way to take qualities from
rare wild plants that are adapted to extreme dry weather and use them in food
crops."The type of farming I am aiming for is literally so that people can survive
as it's going to get drier and drier."Farrant says.
Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants and a few fierce plants
are highly adaptable to the everchanging conditions.Farrant calls one of them
resurrection plants During months without water under a harsh sun,they
fade and contract until they look like a pile of dead green leaves but rainfall can
revive them in the matter of hours.That is to say,when they detect and extend
dry period,they produce sugars and certain stress-associated proteins and
other materials in their tissues to enter a glass-like state that is "the most
stable state that a plant can maintain".
Last year,after Chinese team published a draft genome f rock violet,
one of the best studied resurrection plants,Farrant and colleagues published a
detailed study of another candidate.One or both of these models will help
researchers test their ideas-so far mostly done in the lab-on test plots.
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