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Promise of bio-pesticides: can they replace synthetic chemicals?

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Scott Baerson has been trying to solve the same problem for more than two decades.

Scott Baerson has been trying to solve the same problem for more than two decades.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture molecular biologist, who works in Oxford, Mississippi, has been studying a unique bio-chemical that’s associated with sorghum.

The roots of sorghum exude a chemical called sorgoleone, a natural herbicide that kills weeds and other vegetation near the sorghum plant.

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