The world population has just recently reached 6 billion people and is predicted to double in the next 50 years. Providing an adequate food supply for this 12 billion people is going to be a major problem that we are going to have to face in the generations to come. Only genetically modified foods promise to answer this problem in a number of ways.
One of the first and most basic ways we are going to address this problem is with making our fruits and vegetables more cold tolerant. As many people already know, frost and low temperatures can destroy seedlings. …
