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After growing in glasshouses, harvesting and polishing the rice grains, they found that the vitamin B1 content was increased in rice grains from these lines.

The two sky lakes were frozen solid, and the trio of glasshouses glittered with a light sheen of ice.

Crafted in Lancashire, England, where the company, Hartley Botanic, has been manufacturing glasshouses since 1938, the Patio is available in 15 colors. $4,400 at hartley-botanic.com.

Bringing us back to earth with a bump, Mr Denham said a curtain was drawn over the glasshouses when the temperature hits a certain point.

"We then engineered these into crops, and if that results in an improvement in the glasshouse, then we take it to our experimental farm and test it in a real-world environment," says Prof Long.