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Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough

Posted by samzenpus on from the growing-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes Irish teenagers Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all 16, have won the Google Science Fair 2014. Their project, Combating the Global Food Crisis, aims to provide a solution to low crop yields by pairing a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that naturally occurs in the soil with cereal crops it does not normally associate with, such as barley and oats. The results were incredible: the girls found their test crops germinated in half the time and had a drymass yield up to 74 percent greater than usual.

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  1. This is huge by spiritplumber · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is huge... although we already make enough food to feed 12B people; we throw away a lot of it. Still, efficiency!

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