By NAMI SUGIURA/ Staff Writer
January 22, 2021 at 07:10 JST
The ground cherry, which generates more than 10,000 seeds per plant, is shown at the Kyoto Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Technology Center in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture. (Nami Sugiura)
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