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Genetically engineered plants are able to take up phosphorus from soil more efficiently. Arabidopsis thaliana cress plants that were engineered to make more AVP1 protein (middle and right) grew more and larger leaves that had more than twice the total leaf area of control plants (left) after 90 days in the same low-phosphorus soil. Credit: H. Yang et al/Plant Biotechnology Journal 2007

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