Interesting discussion around some of the techniques and technologies being used to create a pipeline of new crops to help improve food security and feed the growing population
Their technique was inspired by NASA research into how to grow food on space stations. They trick the crops into flowering early by blasting blue and red LED lights for 22 hours a day and keeping temperatures between 62 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Last November, in a paper in Nature, they showed that they can grow up to six generations of wheat, barley, chickpeas and canola in a year, whereas traditional methods would only yield one or two.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/science/food-agriculture-genetics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
