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Boosting food production with turbocharged photosynthesis

ATURE Most people make the most of their gardens by means of permaculture, fertiliser and weeding, but one group of US, UK and Australian scientists has found a different path to green-fingered growth: they have modified the genes of soy beans, allowing them to increase

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