and pesticides says team member Gwyn Beattie a professor of plant pathology and bacteriology at Iowa State university.
which still blights the lives of millions of people in the developing world.""Viruses are all very different from each other,
It will not be able to reduce fungicide applications by adopting genetically modified blight-resistant potatoes;
others argue they are a threat to bird life and a noisy blight on the landscape.
a new class of microbial signaling molecules, says Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at University of California, Davis,
and disease resistance for more than two decades and in 1995 announced that a gene called Xa21 confers resistance to the bacterial blight pathogen.
Bacterial blight, one of the worst bacterial plant diseases in the world, has been found in virtually every crop species including rice.
it is not likely to cause the same kind of ethical and practical problems that blight work on other forms of gene therapy.
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