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Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
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University of Oregon
Caption: Jennifer E. Fox, NIH/NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oregon, has shown that many pesticides interfere with the ability of legumes to recruit soil bacteria needed to provide a natural fertilizer to crops.
Credit: University of Oregon
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