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- New Adventures with Innovation Toronto
  
  Innovation Toronto has been running since 2007 and as such is getting a little old in terms of its constituent parts. the theme in particular has been a problem mainly because we relied too much on some of the components attached to it and therefore could not move on without extensive work. it is now come to the point where that extensive work is going to produce good results. we are already in the process of updating and upgrading various parts of it and over time will make sure that each and every post has been Revisited and revamped so it presents as best it can.
  
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  Innovation Toronto has been running since 2007 and as such is getting a little old in terms of its constituent parts. the theme in particular has been a problem mainly because we relied too much on some of the components attached to it and therefore could not move on without extensive work. it is now come to the point where that extensive work is going to produce good results. we are already in the process of updating and upgrading various parts of it and over time will make sure that each and every post has been Revisited and revamped so it presents as best it can.
  
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drought resistant crops

After two weeks without water, wheat did not survive when soil was pretreated with water (left), but thrived when the soil was pretreated with 3% ethanol (right). The same was true for rice and the model plant Arabidopsis. CREDIT RIKEN

Adding ethanol to soil allows plants to better resist drought – including wheat and rice