New defenses deployed against plant diseases

Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 13:07 in Biology & Nature

An international team led by scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, have transferred broad spectrum resistance against some important plant diseases across different plant families. This breakthrough provides a new way to produce crops with sustainable resistance to economically important diseases.

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