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PostSubject: Mathematics helps find food crops' climate-proof genes   Mathematics helps find food crops' climate-proof genes Icon_minitimeSat Aug 16, 2014 7:51 pm
Researchers are developing mathematical models to identify genetic material that could help improve food crops' resilience to climate change.

Mathematics helps find food crops' climate-proof genes _76966604_reutersparchedsoil

Impacts - such as drought, pest and disease - could hit harvests and undermine global food security.

Scientists hope the models will speed up the process of identifying traits, such as drought resistance, allowing breeders to grow climate-proof crops.

Dry areas account for 40% of land cover and are home to more than 2.5bn people.

At a recent workshop in Morocco, leading mathematicians and crop scientists met to discuss ways that applied mathematics could be used to speed up the search through agricultural genebanks for climate change resistant traits in the banks' samples.

Dry area characteristics include persistent water scarcity, frequent droughts and land degradation - features that are expected to worsen as a result of future climate change.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28789716#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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