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Any idea how hard it would be to genetically engineer an almond tree that could drink sea water?


Probably prohibitively difficult anytime in the forseeable future. Lots of people are spending money trying to improve, on a much more limited scale than "drink sea water", salt tolerance on a variety of crops where that is probably easier than almond trees, and that's not easy.




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