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For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution. The food-energy relationship has been a good one, but it is now entering a new era. Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon-based fuels and nitrogen-based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills

For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution.

By Chloe McIvor of Nature magazine A global effort has finally cracked the complex genome of the potato, which is published today in Nature.