Heat-Tolerant Corn Could Prevent Future Starvation
When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . This Behind the Scenes clause was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation . In the poorest land of the tropics and semitropics — areas that are home to nearly half of the human population — rising temperature from globalclimate changepromise to scourge staple crops , such as rice and Zea mays , by the end of the century ....