WHEN GERRIT HOOGENBOOM looks at an ear of corn, he sees more than sharp green leaves surrounding pearly kernels and pale silk. He sees a little bit of the future.

Hoogenboom, an agricultural engineer, has been tending that future inside a dimly lit, warehouse-like building that crouches in the green flatlands near Griffin. He strides down its narrow, concrete-floored hallway, waves off a trespassing mosquito and opens the gleaming door of what looks like a large, commercial-grade freezer. Intense, otherworldly light streams out, glinting off his glasses. “This is the Conviron,” he says.

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