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Farmers use a harvesting machine in a rice field in India Image: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Andy Fell

Associate director of News and Media Relations, UC Davis

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Imtiyaz Khanday and Venkatesan Sundaresan stand with the cloned rice plants in a greenhouse in December 2018. Image: Karin Higgins/UC Davis

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