Genome Sequencing May Help Avert Banana Armageddon

Friday, August 12, 2016 - 05:31 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how three fungal diseases have evolved into a lethal threat to the world’s bananas. The discovery, reported in the online journalPLOS Genetics, better equips researchers to develop hardier, disease-resistant banana plants and more effective disease-prevention treatments. “We have demonstrated that two of the […]

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