The plants hadn’t fared much better. The soil and seeds from Cavendish had arrived still viable—a highlight of Naomi’s career a few years ago, when she’d last worked at Hawthorne. Yet they would need Earth plants to survive on Cavendish as it had no food crops. Every experiment they conducted with soil and light that mirrored Cavendish levels had failed. For months, the seedling kept dying.
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