Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 5/31/17

With prices down and weather patterns unpredictable, these are tough times for America’s cotton farmers, but new research led by Z. Jeffrey Chen at The University of Texas at Austin might offer a break for the industry. He and a team have taken the first step toward a new way of breeding heartier, more productive cotton through a process called epigenetic modification. In recent decades, scientists have discovered that many traits in living things are controlled not just by their genetics… 

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