Overview
Performance Plants (Kingston, ON) is using genetic engineering to produce climate change-resistant crops.
What they’re doing: Performance Plants is developing high yielding varieties of canola that are drought and heat resistant and capture more carbon from the atmosphere.
How will this be used in the real world? Canada is the biggest canola producer in the world, generating over $40 billion a year, but climate change is threatening that. Performance Plants is working to grow production with a heartier version of canola that can withstand drastic weather changes.