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Nature 423, 210 (15 May 2003) |
Researchers rue hasty destruction of wheat
Carina Dennis
Hindsight is always 20/20, as researchers at one of Australia's top plant-research labs have just discovered. Last month, the laboratory destroyed most of its wheat samples — more than 40,000 plants in all — because of fears that they were housing wheat streak mosaic virus, a disease that farmers desperately want to keep out of Australia.
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