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A race against time to feed the world

Agrochemical scientist Sarah Iveson is excited about digital agriculture’s potential to make crops more resilient to climate change as the global population grows.
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Biologist Sarah Iveson inspects sunflower plants in various stages of growth at a vast greenhouse in Toulouse, France.

Sarah Iveson is head of seed development for Europe, Africa and the Middle East for Switzerland-based agrochemical company Syngenta. Credit: Grégoire Bernardi for Nature

In this picture, I’m in one of our greenhouses at Syngenta’s Toulouse Innovation Centre in France. I’m checking the quality of sunflowers grown from our experimental seeds. As Syngenta’s head of seed development for commercial growers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, I oversee work to improve the performance and stress tolerance of crops such as corn, oilseed rape and sunflowers, used to make sunflower oil.

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Nature 596, 156 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02094-5

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