Modelling the root of crop disease

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

For sugar beet farmers, the appearance of yellowing patches in a field of sugar beet is an alarming sight. It could signal the presence of ‘root madness’, or rhizomania, and a potential reduction in their root sugar yield by 50–60%.

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