New Methods Stimulate Seed Growth.(Brief Article)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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Biologist David R. Soll and his colleagues at the University of Iowa, Ames, have developed methods for dramatically increasing the rate at which corn, soybean, sunflower, and other agricultural seeds absorb water and nutrients, and for loading molecules into seeds that can combat insects and fungi. Soil says that...

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