Are shrooms the new pesticide?

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By Nathanael JohnsonFeb 18, 2015, 5:36 pm185 pts
Scientists in Ireland have found that growing fungus inside barley helps the plants ward off disease. Brian Murphy, a botanist at Trinity College Dublin, has also shown that an inoculation of fungus allows plants to thrive in harsh climatic conditions. ClimateWire, which has a nice write-up here, quoted…

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