The chickpea that could save civilization, if we let it

meckdevil writes: Joanne Chory, director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and a Breakthrough Prize recipient, has created an initiative called “Harnessing Plants for the Future” to develop a super plant that will both provide food and store carbon dioxide in its roots. A “super chickpea plant” now in development could remove huge amounts of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide and fix it in the soil, greatly diminishing the impacts of climate change (not to mention producing large amounts of tasty hummus). But fear of anti-GMO activists has so far deterred her from using the Crispr gene-editing tool to speed work on the plant.

Not high quality protein

[Rick Schumann]

Unless they can change it so it's got all the essential amino acids in the right proportions and none of the junk that soy has that makes it bad for animal life (like humans) to consume, then I couldn't care less.