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Fighting fungi with fungi: Excluding aflatoxin

 
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Science has a special web issue on food security.

Most of it is, from a Permie perspective, misguided, but I really liked this article on introducing fungi to soil, which out-compete the source of aflatoxin ("by far the worst liver carcinogen known to man").

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Another strategy might be to encourage farmers of drought-stressed peanuts, corn, and cotton to switch over to red rice beans, sorghum, and sunnhemp (crotalaria)...
 
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