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Technology › Japanese grow vegetables in Antarctic thanks to 'Green Room'

A ''vegetable factory'' that enables plants to be grown indoors under fluorescent lights free of agrochemicals is proving a welcome addition for the Japanese research… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Mon, Jun 29 2009

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