Pest-resistant soybeans developed

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

Two lines of pest-resistant soybean painstakingly developed. "Sparta -- the Soybean Aphid Shield" is the new trade name for one of the new lines. Researchers tested some 2,000 strains of soybeans against aphids to isolate four with different resistant genes.

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