All the developments of drought-resistance and higher yields and all the rest have been done verbally so far.

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To meet the growing food demands humans will need to find ever higher yielding strains with resistance to drought, disease, and anything else the future might throw at us.

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Simon Best, former head of plant science at Zeneca, looks forward to the day when molecular switches might be so sophisticated that the process of infection or drought will itself be enough to turn on a genetically engineered resistance gene.

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