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ARS chemist Michael Jackson observes flowering cuphea plants growing at the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois. He and his colleagues adapted a process for converting fatty acids from cuphea oil into an insect repellent that worked as well as or better than DEET in preliminary trials.
Photo by Janine E. Donahue, ARS.
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