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Harnessing nature to defend soybean roots

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Scientists from BASF Agricultural Solutions and the Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have developed a way to genetically equip soybean plants with Cry14 .

This approach, long used in other crops such as corn and cotton to combat insect pests, has now been implemented successfully to prevent SCN from feeding on soybean roots.

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