How to feed the world by 2050? Recent breakthrough boosts plant growth by 40 percent

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Recent advances to address hunger through agricultural discovery will be highlighted at this year's annual meeting of the AAAS. Session speaker and University of Illinois professor Donald Ort will discuss the global food security challenge and a recent breakthrough in Science that boosted crop growth by 40 percent by creating a shortcut for a glitch that plagues most food crops.