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Cotton plants produce tonnes of seed along with the fibre for our clothes. But the seeds are toxic to humans. Professor Keerti Rathore from Texas A&M University has found a way to stop the plants producing poison in the seeds without reducing the cotton’s resistance to pests and diseases. Cotton is grown in many of the poorest countries in the world, some with unstable food supplies, so could this new cotton help prevent world hunger?