Cotton in Petri Dishes (IMAGE)

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Cotton in Petri Dishes

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What started in a petri dish such as this could ultimately provide protein for 500 million people annually. From this tissue in the lab, cotton plants with no toxic gossypol in the seed but still it intact throughout the rest of the plant to protect against insects and disease. Dr. Keerti Rathore, a plant biotechnologist for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, led a team of researchers whose findings are in the November 20 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station photo by Kathleen Phillips

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