Browsing: Covered

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a spare bedroom — the bacteria living in those warts made barley germinate 50% faster, and the adults who said it wouldn’t work on cereals watched them take Google’s grand prize

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The discovery began as a suspected disease. Émer Hickey was gardening with her mother in Kinsale, on the Cork coast of Ireland, when they pulled up…