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Article: Ragweed Research Is Nothing to Sneeze At: Graduate Students Probe How Pesky Pollen Spreads Under Varying Weather Conditions.
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- September 24, 2007
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Byline: Johns Hopkins University
BALTIMORE, Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- To a person with a pollen allergy, an 18-acre ragweed field sounds like a sneezy, red-eyed zone of misery. But to two environmental engineering researchers at The Johns Hopkins University, the parcel presented a rare and valuable opportunity to learn how the troublesome weeds grow, reproduce and scatter their pollen under varying weather conditions.
Their findings, gathered with a mix of high-tech and low-tech tools, could lead to better ways to track the pollen's travel and control the pesky plant's spread, discoveries that could aid the 15 million people with ragweed allergies in the United ...
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