Ancient crop beats salt
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CTA. 1996. Ancient crop beats salt. Spore 61. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Amaranth, an ancient cereal plant from South America, is making a comeback. Researchers have found that the plant tolerates saline soils and produces very nutritious food from land that has been abandoned to salt. Millions of hectares of farmland...