Our industry partner, Indigo Ag, has reported preliminary performance results of Indigo Cotton, commercially-available cotton seed treated with an endophyte initially discovered in our lab, that was planted across 270,000 acres of the U.S. cotton belt in 2017. Post-harvest results from the 2017 growing season demonstrated a 14% average yield increase across localities with an added value of $68/per acre for cotton producers.
It may sound crazy, but we have seen effects like this dating back to our first cotton endophyte research field trials in 2012.
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