{"id":153306,"date":"2022-12-20T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/how-to-make-corn-more-like-cactus"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:22:22","slug":"how-to-make-corn-more-like-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/how-to-make-corn-more-like-cactus","title":{"rendered":"How to make corn more like cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-make-corn-more-like-cactus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are trying to teach old crops some new tricks that will let them flourish in these harsher conditions \u2014 turning to secrets that reside in plants like pineapples, orchids and agaves. These and certain other plants have hacked photosynthesis in ways that allow them to thrive when it\u2019s hot and dry, and even to withstand blistering periods of drought.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are trying to teach old crops some new tricks that will let them flourish in these harsher conditions \u2014 turning to secrets that reside in plants like pineapples, orchids and agaves. These and certain other plants have hacked photosynthesis in ways that allow them to thrive when it\u2019s hot and dry, and even to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}