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Checking the progress of a rice plant
Researcher Harkamal Walia checks the progress of a rice plant. The magenta glow is caused by custom light-emitting diode grow lights.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grant OIA 1736192.]
Learn more in the NSF news release NSF EPSCoR awards new projects to help understand connections between genes and organisms' characteristics. (Date image taken: 2015-2017; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 13, 2017)
Credit: University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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