{
  "id": 5425641,
  "title": "How a plant's refusal to self-pollinate could help India grow more of its own cooking oil",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/how-a-plants-refusal-to-self-pollinate-could-help-india-grow-more-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-03T20:50:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pollinate-india-cooking-oil.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most people assume plants reproduce through whatever pollen happens to land on them. This is not true. A collaborative research initiative involving the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has mapped and functionally tested the genes that control a natural \"self-rejection\" system in two widely grown Indian oilseed crops, Brassica rapa (mustard) varieties toria and yellow sarson.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}