The University of Western Australia: Call for two-fold approach to create sustainable food supplies

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1. Great work is being done

on heat-tolerant RuBisCo activase. But it should be done with a Manhattan Project style urgency. Also I think that humanity's best chance of staving off mass starvation caused by serial cereal grain harvest failures is to lower our sights on the food ladder. If we could develop methods of producing palatable and efficiently produced foodstuffs from algae, yeast, and bacteria, Soylent Green might not have to be people.