Wheat crop yield can be increased by up to 20% using new chemical technology

Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 09:51 in Biology & Nature

UK scientists have created a synthetic molecule that, when applied to crops, has been shown to increase the size and starch content of wheat grains in the lab by up to 20%.

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