date:Jun 12, 2012
President John Kennedy's promise to put man on the moon, a project that took a decade and cost $24 billion.
Today, we face growing and economically empowered nations, energy-intensive global economies, and major shifts in global climate that together constitute the perfect storm for agriculture, say the experts. Yet plant-science research has been underfunded for decadesand funding is projected to shrink.
The only way to address this pending problem, they warn, is to use scientific research t