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Microbiologist Karen Dierksen harvests perennial ryegrass tissue to look for proteins expressed after the plants are cut and dried in the field before seed harvest. Some of these proteins may be useful for increasing efficiency when straw is used as a fermentation feedstock.
Photo by Peggy Greb.
