hawgrider
08-13-2015, 05:31 AM
Scientists Create a Healthier Peanut
If you’ve been puzzling over ways to get more oleic acid into your body, the USDA has just come through. In a joint venture with Oklahoma State University, the agency has released a brand-new peanut that’s said to boast a richer flavor, health benefits, and resistance to crop disease, Modern Farmer reports. The new legume, a type of Spanish peanut, is called OLé and is the result of a sophisticated “pedigree methodology” that tapped into an “advanced breeding line” to create a peanut that would be more resistant to Sclerotinia blight and pod rot. The diseases can devastate peanut crops unless farmers resort to using fungicides,
https://www.yahoo.com/health/scientists-create-a-healthier-peanut-126512987713.html
If you’ve been puzzling over ways to get more oleic acid into your body, the USDA has just come through. In a joint venture with Oklahoma State University, the agency has released a brand-new peanut that’s said to boast a richer flavor, health benefits, and resistance to crop disease, Modern Farmer reports. The new legume, a type of Spanish peanut, is called OLé and is the result of a sophisticated “pedigree methodology” that tapped into an “advanced breeding line” to create a peanut that would be more resistant to Sclerotinia blight and pod rot. The diseases can devastate peanut crops unless farmers resort to using fungicides,
https://www.yahoo.com/health/scientists-create-a-healthier-peanut-126512987713.html