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Vegetables, Like People, Urged To Live Up To Potential

10-11-2006 · ScienceDaily

A major stress in a carrot's life -- like the slash of a kitchen knife -- and the tapered tuber kicks in the juice and pumps up its phytochemicals. That's the finding of Dr. Luis Cisneros, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station food scientist. He calls it abiotic stress -- pushing the button, so to speak, on a crop after it has been harvested.

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