What’s the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are ...

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What's the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it—literally. Researchers in the Walter Gassmann lab ...