TurfWars in the Biotech era

"Watching grass grow was never so exciting", reads the last line of this interesting article on cutting edge plant biotechnology. Read about how the grass growing on your lawns in the coming years may need less water, weeding, and mowing.

Interesting factoid: Nearly 50,000 square miles of the continental US is covered by lawn, according to estimates by ecologists at NASA's Ames Research Center. Using satellite and aerial imagery, the team calculated that irrigated grass covers three times more land in the US than irrigated corn does. That makes turf the nation's most widespread irrigated crop.