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A planet that is warming at extraordinary speed may require extraordinary new food crops.
| And a planet that is not nonetheless has considerably warmer regions that might like new and imprived food sources. Those who need to eat win either way. |
The latest great agricultural hope is beans that can thrive in temperatures that cripple most conventional beans. They're now growing in test plots of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, in Colombia.
Many of these "heat-beater" beans resulted from a unique marriage, 20 years ago, of tradition and technology. The matchmaker was a Colombian scientist named Alvaro Mejia-Jimenez. But for almost two decades, his innovation sat on the shelf, unused.
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