Paige and Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Paige and Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois animal biology professor and department head Ken Paige (right) and doctoral student Daniel Scholes discovered that some plants multiply their chromosomes without undergoing cell division after they have been grazed, a process that boosts their productivity above that of plants not damaged by grazing.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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