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  • Grant may unlock 9 million new acres previously unusable for energy crop production

    Dec 2, 2015 2:00 pm by Kathryne MetcalfCampus Life
    image of principal investigator Andrew Leakey by L. Brian Stauffer

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    Team hopes to develop sorghum with a 40% improvement in Water Use Efficiency. “That means that we should be able to expand the growing area into regions that are currently too dry to produce a profitable crop.”