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Discovery of a New Kind of Molecule

Caption: In laboratory research at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Pamela Green, the Crawford Greenewalt Chair of Plant Sciences at UD, led the discovery of a new type of molecule -- a kind of "micro-switch" -- that can turn off genes in rice.

Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware

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