Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

Filed by Patch Reyes

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000 seeds in a spare bedroom. According to the writeup at scienceblog.com, the bacteria living in those warts made barley—turning a weird plant into a potentially game-changing agricultural discovery. It’s a scrappy, low-budget science win that most adults would have walked right past, and it belongs on every open source nerd’s radar.