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Proposals by Institute Members Mary Gehring and Jing-Ke Weng selected for the MIT Climate Grand Challenges program.
The multidisciplinary Massachusetts Institute of Technology effort aims to catalyze discoveries and innovations that lead to game-changing advances in addressing climate change. Gehring’s and Weng’s projects are key facets of Revolutionizing Agriculture with Low-emissions, Resilient Crops, an initiative pursuing two linked goals: ensuring that yields of agricultural crops do not continue to decrease due to climate change’s effects on plant growth; and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions produced by agricultural fertilizer.