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Too kinky to be a crop plant

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Deutsche Welle

Publication Date
2015-08-11

We eat only around 200 of the earth's 300,000 edible plant species. Some say that's because many are toxic - but in his book "The Nature of Crops," botanist John Warren argues some plants are just too kinky to be crops.

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http://www.dw.com/en/crops-food-vegetables-fruit-farming-plants/a-18639138