The results of the experiments, reported in the journal Science, show that the modified plant can thrive even when salt levels are twice the amount that would kill a normal crop of corn.

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Wall Street Journal, the Mississippi plant in question is owned by a private company, the Steel Development Co.

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The Daiichi plant has had 15 accidents since 2005, the most of any Japanese plant with more than three reactors, according to an analysis of the data by the Journal.

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In a 2008 study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, mice that were fed plant sterols suffered more-severe strokes.

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Most information was then available free of charge on CNBC, the Weather Channel or Web sites run by Farm Journal and Pioneer, a seed and plant genetics division of DuPont.

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