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MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, seated left, and Miao Jianhua, director of the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, sign an agreement to establish a joint international research center for the study of Tennessee-grown ginseng. Also present at the signing, back, from left, is local businessman Ted LaRoche of Greenway Herbal Products; state Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro; MTSU professor Iris Gao, who will serve as the center’s American director; MTSU professor Elliot Altman, who leads the Tennessee Center of Botanical Medicine Research at MTSU; and officials from the Guangxi garden. (MTSU Photo by Andrew Oppmann)

MTSU President Sidney McPhee, Chinese partner sign agreement to create joint ginseng institute

CIM Digital May 24, 2018

Photo courtesy of MTSU Middle Tennessee State University and its primary research partner in China agreed to create a joint ginseng institute. The institute will study, develop and promote Tennessee-gown...

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