The greatest potential for developing entirely new types of agricultural crops depends upon
A) bioengineering new combinations of wheat and rice.
B) grafting together different plants into one new type of plant, such as a plant with tomatoes and sweet potato roots.
C) thousands of plant species that occur only in the wild.
D) our ability to identify and culture new types of animal pollinators.
C
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