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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Meet the Cool Beans Designed to Beat Climate Change
2015-04-09
Introducing Homo sap, the problem solving ape.
A planet that is warming at extraordinary speed may require extraordinary new food crops.
And a planet that is not nonetheless has considerably warmer regions that might like new and imprived food sources. Those who need to eat win either way.
The latest great agricultural hope is beans that can thrive in temperatures that cripple most conventional beans. They're now growing in test plots of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, in Colombia.

Many of these "heat-beater" beans resulted from a unique marriage, 20 years ago, of tradition and technology. The matchmaker was a Colombian scientist named Alvaro Mejia-Jimenez. But for almost two decades, his innovation sat on the shelf, unused.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Lemme know when they got beans that can grow on a half mile of ice. Winter is coming.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-04-09 20:32  

#7  Lord Garth, perhaps humidity is a factor they forgot to mention?

I'd love to see what would happen if it suddnely became known that Starbucks was using GMO beans to make their coffee. Riots? Or just suicidal depression?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-04-09 15:06  

#6  But GMO foods require dihydrogen monoxide, deadly in large amounts, and have been found to be infected with DNA.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-04-09 13:41  

#5  Technically speaking, all our food crops are GMO, since we breed and crossbreed them. Blanket condemnation of GMO foods is a hallmark of the modern day Luddite, ironically delivered over the Internet
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-04-09 13:21  

#4  He wanted to transfer these genetic traits into the common bean

Doesn't that make it, like, a Genetically Modified Organism? I wonder if the lefties understand? They hate GMOs.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-04-09 07:50  

#3  And when the ice age comes, they'll finally realize they've been working on the wrong problem. Of course, I'm sure they'd grow well in any land positioned behind Al Gore. Burning methane from his ass can probably heat the bean crop, provide 200 MW of power and still leave enough energy to set his pants on fire.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2015-04-09 05:05  

#2  I don't understand the 66F premise.

Some of the biggest dry bean producers in the world include Brazil, Burma and India.
Posted by: lord garth   2015-04-09 01:05  

#1  Well, this explains why my green & yellow beans keep keeling over year in & year out - they sit right next to my tenant's dryer vent.
Posted by: Raj   2015-04-09 00:29  

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