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These seeds in space could create climate-resistant super varieties

Scientists have sent a batch of seeds toward the International Space Station to help create new strains of agricultural plants resistant to climate change. 

Seeds of the nutritious grain sorghum together with arabidopsis, a plant commonly used for genetic experiments, are on their way to the orbital outpost aboard the uncrewed Cygnus cargo vehicle, which lifted off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Monday (Nov. 7). The Cygnus will arrive at the orbiting lab on Wednesday (Nov. 9), provided it’s able to overcome the glitch that has prevented the freighter from deploying one of its two solar arrays.

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