Article: Plants in York County, Calif., Detect Bioterrorism.

By Sean Adkins, York Daily Record, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 4--Cost factors will prohibit York County from utilizing a new agricultural bioterrorism warning system being developed by Penn State in University Park scientists.

In June, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a three-year, $3.5 million grant to Penn State so campus scientists could study how to genetically engineer plants to detect chemical and biological agents.

The agency is a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, said Ramesh Raina, an assistant professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science.

Raina and other scientists ...

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