Bioscience researchers defeating potato blight

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 10:54 in Mathematics & Economics

Researchers funded by the BBSRC Crop Science Initiative have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to late blight – a devastating disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry $5-6 billion a year worldwide. They will share this research with industry at an event in London later today (18 November).

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