New system harnesses randomness and provides a unique code that cannot be duplicated, bringing hope to farmers plagued by fake seeds.

You can read the story at https://botany.one/2023/03/mit-researchers-develop-silk-based-unclonable-tags-to-combat-counterfeit-seeds/

You can read the original research at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf1978