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Implementing the New Biology Decadal Challenges Linking Food, Energy, and the Environment: Summary of a Workshop, June 3-4, 2010 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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3 Wrap-up and Next Steps
Pages 25-26

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... Discussion throughout the workshop centered on impact, projected time lines, and the many different aspects of science and technology to be integrated and focused. • Basic, foundational research in plant science has many gaps that need to be filled to achieve carbon neutrality as well as the many other plant improvements discussed.
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... 2 IMPLEMENTING THE NEW BIOLOGY As Dr. Yamamoto thanked the group for participating in this "first experiment" of workshops, he said its work will stimulate activity to use New Biology to solve the challenges that the world, and the United States in particular, face related to food, energy, and the environment.
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