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Agentic AI accelerates search for crops that can harvest critical minerals
For too long, the United States has relied on foreign sources for most of the raw materials powering its technological future: the essential minerals in every smartphone, battery pack and semiconductor.
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Scientists are exploring engineered plants and symbiotic microbes that can extract critical minerals from soil—a process known as phytomining—to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign sources for materials used in smartphones, batteries and semiconductors.
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