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How Crop Science Is Transforming the Humble Potato
In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 by 13 feet each. One afternoon last summer, Hein Kruyt, then the company’s CEO, paced around the field, pointing at the leafy spuds …