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A research team shows that a low-cost, sustainable soil amendment—hemp-derived biochar fortified with iron—can substantially ...

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Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences researchers Ahmed Darwish, Lorenzo Rossi, and Andrej Svyantek are reimagining how plants are studied, bred and grown.