Organikos posted: " Agricultural adaptation to a changing climate has caught our attention frequently with regard to wine. Thanks to Kim Severson for this look at other types: Meet the Climate-Defying Fruits and Vegetables in Your Future Hot-weather cherries, d" Organikos
Hot-weather cherries, drought-resistant melons and six other crops in the works that could change how we eat in a fast-warming world.
The Cosmic Crisp was bred at the University of Washington with a changing climate in mind. Credit...Ines Hanrahan/Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission
Plant breeders, by nature, are patient people. It can take them years or even decades to perfect a new variety of fruit or vegetable that tastes better, grows faster or stays fresh longer.
But their work has taken on a new urgency in the face of an increasingly erratic climate. Recent floods left more than a third of California's table grapes rotting on the vine. Too much sunlight is burning apple crops. Pests that farmers never used to worry about are marching through lettuce fields.
Breeding new crops that can thrive under these assaults is a long game.
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