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The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center: A St. Louis based non-profit committed to Improving the Human Condition through Plant Science.
St. Louis, MO
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    Aug 11
    3 things you'd already know about if you subscribed to On the Vine: Jackie Joyner-Kersee's new food and nutrition center, a scientist fighting for heat- and drought-resistant crops, and volunteer beekeepers restoring our prairie. Subscribe below so you're not the last to know.
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    Aug 6
    One of the smallest plants on Earth is doing some of the biggest work for the planet's carbon cycle: peatlands built by moss store nearly a third of the world's soil carbon, more than 2x what's held in all the world's forest biomass combined.
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    Jul 28
    Most of the world's vineyards grow on rootstock from wild grapevines native to North America. In the 1800s, these wild grapevines saved Europe's vineyards from a pest called phylloxera, and their rootstock is still used today. Now they need saving too.
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