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of sunflower seeds are produced every year. But it trails behind countries like Russia and Ukraine, which produce ten times that on an annual basis.
“It is a crop that’s very well suited for climate change, in part because you have the wild relatives, which give it options for creating more environmentally resilient cultivars,” says Reiseberg.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.: The Schweinitz’s sunflower is found only in North and South Carolina and considered endangered.: Seed pods of the endangered Pecos sunflower grow on the along the Rio Grande in Socorro, New Mexico.
That ability to survive in a salty environment, which Roth argues is valuable in its own right, may become more valuable in a hotter, drier future of saltier agricultural soils, as scientists look for ways to breed salt tolerance into commercial crops.
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