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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

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Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. An Arizona Walnut tree. Examples of wild and domesticated forms of crops.

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