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Road maintenance may accidentally spread the seeds of invasice plants, according to Penn State researchers."The road graders that are used during these operations can act like a plow, pushing seeds along the road," said Emily Rauschert, senior project associate and applied ecologist in crop and soil sciences. "They can pick up seeds of an invasive grass and spread them several orders of magnitude further than the natural dispersal."The researchers created a computer...