Image Credit: Daniel Winstead/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

Amaranth, shown here in a Penn State greenhouse, is an annual tropical edible plant that is sometimes cultivated as a leafy vegetable. It is one of the species mentioned in the study, “Food Resilience in a Dark Catastrophe,” authored by Daniel Winstead and Michael Jacobson in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

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