Soybean genetic treasure trove found in Swedish village
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 10:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The first screening by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists of the American ancestors of soybeans for tolerance to ozone and other stresses had an eye-opening result: The world superstars of stress resistance hailed from a little village in far northern Sweden, called Fiskeby.