and coastal regions who were recruited to grow the plant. I'm not sure what happened. What I can say is that around the same time, General Motors also experimented on Jatropha-based biofuel.

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Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University This morning, my six-year-old came into our bedroom and started reading a story from a book.

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...