Space-age food served up with seeds of success
By Xin Dingding and Jin Zhu | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-03 08:10
Bigger and better vegetables show the benefits of cosmic farming
An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world.
They are, literally. Chinese scientists have created more than 120 varieties of plants by sending seeds into space over the past 25 years.
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