Scientist believe they have found an answer to solve the problem of feeding our growing global population. They want to create salt-tolerant crops to sustain our planet’s appetite. The goal is to create crops that have a gene “to develop salt bladders without a major impact on their growth and yield”. This would mean that we would be able to grow crops such as wheat or rice on high salinity soil.

High Salinity Soil.

The invention seems ingenues as it would solve the problem of famine, especially in regions with high salinity soil. However, the issue is that they will be genetically modified organisms, therefore they might have some side effects that we are unaware of as we eat them. Although, we have been consuming genetically modified organisms for awhile now. Thus, if we have not had any severe side effects yet, then maybe that means they are good for us to eat. Furthermore, scientist have a few years to make sure the salt-tolerant crops consumption do not pose a problem to use until we will need them in 2050.