As she neared death, Joanne Chory had several items on her to-do list: hugging her 2-month-old granddaughter, cleaning her refrigerator, reminding her husband to water the houseplants—and saving the world. Helping protect the world from climate-change disasters was an avowed goal of Chory, a plant biologist who died Nov. 12 at age 69 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Wolfgang Busch, executive director of the project, known as the Harnessing Plants Initiative, says the team still needs to prove these new plant breeds could store large amounts of carbon long enough to make a big difference.
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