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Transcript: 'Super Rice' Deploys Snorkel To Survive Floods
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
08-20-2009
'Super Rice' Deploys Snorkel To Survive Floods
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 21:00-22:00 PM
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MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
And I'm Robert Siegel.
Scientists are racing to develop strains of super rice. The idea is to prevent deadly famines. Researchers say tough, highly-productive rice plants offer the best hope for feeding a world population that will reach nine billion by 2050.
As NPR's Jon Hamilton reports, the quest to create super rice is producing a lot of scientific papers on rice genetics.
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JON HAMILTON: In the rice fields of ...
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