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Rare Earths Have a Green Thumb

Nov 21, 2025
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Postdoctoral scholar from MIT, Giorgio Rizzo, published a research paper this July exploring the usefulness of lanthanides (Lns) in preserving crops from UV light stressors while contributing as much benefit as possible. The findings would support that a mixture of (La 3+) Lanthanum III cation and a certain sugar called Trehalose, a common disaccharide produced […]