Seeing rice with X-rays may improve crop yields
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the patients in a novel use of CT scanners as part of an agriculture study to increase rice yield.