超级尺寸：未来植物如何养活世界

Super size me We journey to the near-future with Rowan Hooper to discover that by the 2030s, botanists had worked out how to grow hybridised superplants to help feed the world I N Roald Dahl’s novel James and the Giant Peach, magic crystals cause a withered peach tree to produce a spectacular, juicy, house-sized peach. How nice would it be, people thought, if we could grow massive fruit in real life – perhaps without also spawning giant insect pests and having to endure villainous aunties. eggplants). Indeed, potatoes themselves evolved from a hybridisation event involving a tomato some 8 million years ago. So it is a simple matter to make a thriving hybrid of closely related plants through grafting. …