Developing hardier, weather-resistant crops
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 09:01
in Physics & Chemistry
At first, the back room of plant physiologist Edgar Spalding's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might be mistaken for an alien space ship set straight out of a Hollywood movie. It's a room bathed in low-red light with camera lenses pointing at strange looking entities encased in Petri dishes.