date:Dec 02, 2013
Breakthrough science with the ability to control the life-cycle of plants could be the solution to increasing food production as population exceeds nine billion by 2050, according to researchers from the University of Munster and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology in Germany.
Current estimates by the United Nations (UN) suggest that global agricultural production needs to increase by about 70 per cent between 2005 and 2050 to satisfy the growing demand for food a