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Plant biology: Growth industry

To learn the chemical language of plants, Ian Baldwin has built up a German research empire that engineers seeds — and a field station in the Utah wilderness to grow them.

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Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.

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Abbott, A. Plant biology: Growth industry. Nature 468, 886–888 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468886a

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