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Is the future of agriculture digital?

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Contributed photo | illinois.edu

Contributed photo | illinois.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign issued the following announcement on Sept. 10

With colleagues at several institutions, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign crop sciences professor Stephen Moose will lead the development of a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems. With $25 million in newly announced funding, the center will create an Internet of Living Things to learn the intimate biological language of plants and their associated organisms. Moose spoke with News Bureau life sciences editor Diana Yates about this new initiative. more... 

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