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What’s
Old Is New Again.
Researchers in Hawaii developed an improved variety of protea -
a showy flower that is a mainstay of Hawaii’s tropical flower
industry. The flower variety is now more colorful, flowers longer,
resists disease better and has a lighter weight so that it costs less
to ship to distant markets. Canola also received a new twist at Colorado
State, where researchers and extension personnel worked with an
agricultural products business to patent an environmentally friendly,
canola-based motor oil. If the vegetable-based oil replaced just five
percent of the petroleum oil used today, that market would be roughly
50 million gallons.
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