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Caption: These cotton plants were bred in a lab to remove toxic gossypol from the seed only, leaving it intact throughout the rest of the plant to protect against insects and disease. When commercially available, these plants could provide protein for 500 million people a year. Dr. Keerti Rathore, a plant biotechnologist for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, led a team of researchers whose findings are in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Credit: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station photo by Kathleen Phillips
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