Harnessing modern biology in sustainable and sufficient food crop production -VERSIONE ITALIANA
David Baulcombe, Regius Professor of Botany, Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge
From 2014 > Tenth World conference - The eradication of hunger
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Speaker & abstract
Robert Hooke wrote in the preface to Micrographia (1664) that “It is the great prerogative of Humankind above other creatures, that we are not only able to behold the works of Nature, or barely to sustain our lives by them, but we also have the power of considering, comparing, altering, assisting, and improving them to various uses.