Author: Lucy Purdy / Source: Positive News
Food-growing areas around the world face new challenges as a result of climate change. This Syria-US project highlights one potential solution: reaching deep into the history of plants
Sickle in hand, this Syrian man harvests wheat as the sun begins to fall.
He stands in a field near the village of al-Bahariyah, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Six thousand miles away in a greenhouse in Kansas, researchers watch as a cloud of Hessian flies works on destroying 20,000 trial seedlings.But one species among the samples remains untouched: an ancient Syrian grass known as Aegilops tauschii.
Seeds from this wild grass that were once stored in a seed bank in Tal…
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