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First Halophile Potatoes Harvested

Posted by timothy on from the integrated-dill-is-the-next-step dept.

Razgorov Prikazka writes "A Dutch-based company from Groningen is trying to create a potato race that is able to survive in a saline environment. The first test-batch was just harvested (English translation of Dutch original) on the island Texel and seem to be in good shape. The company states that rising sea-levels will create a demand for halophile crops. I do wonder if one still has to put salt on ones potatoes when they are grown in salt water."

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  1. Ho hum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice to know the public is subsidizing these scientists to waste their time preparing for a doomsday scenario that will never come. Growing potatoes in a new way is fine in and of itself. But, rising sea levels? Give me a break. That nonsense has been flushed out as pseudoscience many times over. Next!

  2. fri5t 5top by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it a break, if gu3st and never get