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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Rinat Harash and Ari Rabinovitch

COP27: Israel harnessing DNA of bygone wild crops to enhance food supply

A man handles an ear of wheat in a greenhouse at the Israel Plant Gene Bank at the Volcani Institute in Rishon LeZion, Israel November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of crops from the distant past?

Scientists in Israel are creating a gene bank from the seeds of local wild crops, some that have survived for thousands of years since the birth of agriculture and that may help farmers deal with a harsher climate in the coming decades.

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