Contributor Kristen Erickson

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06-01-2001
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NASA expects the first organisms to live on Mars to be plants, specifically, mustard plants. This science news story is about a genetically engineered strain of mustard plant that signals when it is distressed, using phosphorescent genes from a jellyfish.