date:Jul 29, 2020
ays concerned with how climate change will affect food security, including here in the UAE and the Gulf. By trying to understand how crops have evolved in the past to adapt to past climate change and different environments, we can hopefully find genes to help us today and in the future.
Tropical varieties of japonica continued evolving after the cooling event - likely supported by trade and travel networks and the study finds tropical japonica reached Southeast Asian islands 2,500 years ago.