Science Of The Seed: A Joint Broadcast With IPR

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Credit Amy Mayer/IPR

Corn plants grow in a roof-top greenhouse at Monsanto's Chesterfield Village Research Facility

People have been cross-breeding plants for thousands of years, manipulating traits in agricultural crops from generation to generation. When scientists discovered that they could actually modify the genes of these plants in a laboratory, the landscape of agriculture changed dramatically -- and fast.

In this special joint broadcast with Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe, we explore the science of seeds, as a continuation of the Harvest Public Media series.