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Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)
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Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)

How and when did early humans domesticate the plants that we use today? Did these ancient farmers purposefully select traits, or did they domesticate unconsciously? In the future, can breeders and farmers grow more nutritious and robust food using genomics?

In this episode, we talk to Michael Purugganan, an evolutionary biologist at NYU, about some of ou…

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