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| A Key Discovered To Cold Tolerance In Corn |
| 2008-09-05 |
| The findings suggest that modifying corn to synthesize more PPDK during cold weather could allow corn, like Miscanthus, to be cultivated in colder climates and be productive for more months of the year in its current locations. The same approach might even be used with sugar cane, which may be crossed with Miscanthus, making improvement of cold-tolerance by breeding a possibility. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #7 They sugar cane part could be interesting in a biofuel context. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-05 20:33 |
| #6 This will come in handy in the "Little Ice Age" that's on the way. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-09-05 19:14 |
| #5 tipover, but, but Al said that the Earth has a fever. The Arctic ice cap is melting away, soon it will be too hot to live anywhere in the world (except the tops of mountains, and way, way North.) /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-09-05 16:40 |
| #4 Rambler, don't buy a vacation home at high altitude and latitude unless you like to ski. Sorry. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-09-05 13:59 |
| #3 P2k, what do you mean? I am not sure why they are even bothering to research this. Soon the only place cool enough for plants to grow will be above the Arctic circle. That's what the Goreacle told me. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-09-05 12:52 |
| #2 A silent sun may force it to become practical. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-05 09:07 |
| #1 Hmmm. Not sure if this, by itself, is enough to grow corn in colder places. Corn can GROW fine in cooler climates. The problem is getting it to germinate in them. Small gardeners who don't mind going to the trouble to do so have known for years that they can start corn indoors and then plant it out in fairly cool weather with good results. This is impractical on a large scale, though. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-09-05 05:41 |