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National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Plant DNA May Protect Military Supply Chain New York-based Applied DNA Sciences is working with the Defense Logistics Agency to use the hereditary traits of plants to keep parts that have been tampered with out of military electronic systems.
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