(Algemeiner) Anav Silverman - A team of Israeli scientists has developed a new technology that may enable crops to weather droughts worldwide. The team, led by Professor Shimon Gepstein, Chancellor of Kinneret College, genetically engineered a plant that can withstand droughts by "freezing itself" after not receiving water for a certain period of time. The plant then "returns to life" after the water supply is renewed, and this occurs without any damage to the plant's physical structure. Moreover, the engineered plants flourished with only a third of the water other plants required. International firms have expressed interest in the technology.
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