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Study a step toward disease-resistant crops, sustainability

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Beth Forbes
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Guri Johal
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A five-year study that could help increase disease resistance, stress tolerance and plant yields is under way at Purdue University.

The $4 million project uses a new technique called "mutant-assisted gene identification and characterization," or MAGIC, to identify potentially useful gene combinations in crop species.

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