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Aeroponic techniques offer vitamin B12 boost

Scientists hail indoor farming breakthrough to biofortify pea shoots

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New technology has been used to boost pea shoots
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New technology has been used to boost pea shoots

A bag of salad could now contain the recommended daily dose of vitamin B12 thanks to work carried out by UK researchers. Scientists from the John Innes Centre, LettUs Grow and the Quadram Institute...

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