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title: ""A few dozen petri dishes in a high-tech greenhouse in Canberra hold…"
date: 2020-08-07
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# "A few dozen petri dishes in a high-tech greenhouse in Canberra hold…

*August 7, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-27/csiro-scientists-grow-coloured-cotton/12395250](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-27/csiro-scientists-grow-coloured-cotton/12395250){target="_blank"}
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\"A few dozen petri dishes in a high-tech greenhouse in Canberra hold the potential to transform the global textiles industry.\
They contain plant tissue, which within days will grow into cotton plants: not standard, everyday white cotton, but ones with a dazzling array of colours.\
They are the product of CSIRO plant breeders dedicated to producing better, sustainable natural fibres that will hopefully one day lead to wrinkle-free, naturally dyed, stretchy cotton to outperform synthetic fabrics.\
Colleen MacMillan leads the team of scientists who have cracked cotton\'s molecular colour code, adding genes to make the plants produce a colour.\"
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