Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change
Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
Wild cotton grows in the parched grasslands of the Sonoran Desert, surviving without irrigation, pesticides, or other human inputs that domesticated cotton depends on. Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks.
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