Battling crop diseases without borders
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
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News Expanding Wheat Pathogen Surveillance System with New Investment
An international collaboration, including researchers at John Innes Centre, The Sainsbury Laboratory and GetGenome have announced the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System (Wheat DEWAS), to strengthen crop resilience against devastating wheat diseases
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News A new Achilles Heel gene discovered in plant-pathogen interactions
A research collaboration has identified members of the DA1 family of growth-regulatory enzymes as targets of effectors secreted by the oomycete pathogen Albugo candida, which causes white blister rust, a widespread disease of Brassica crops
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News Insights into pathogen-host interaction offer a clue to protecting crops from blast
A mechanism used by a fungal pathogen to promote spread of the devastating cereal crop disease, blast, has been revealed in fine detail
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News Smart soil bugs offer farmers an ecofriendly route to controlling crop diseases
An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration.
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Blog Zombie plants, witches’ brooms and the cauldron of curious science
Carrots, ants, snails, strawberries, mice, and major cereal crops are just a few of the many organisms that can be turned into zombies: kept alive on life support under the manipulating spell of parasites
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Press Release Unravelling fungal spore release mechanics to guide policy on barberry planting
Researchers have shed light on a long-standing mystery concerning how fungal spores are released and dispersed
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Press Release The microbial molecule that turns plants into zombies
A newly discovered manipulation mechanism used by parasitic bacteria to slow down plant aging, may offer new ways to protect disease-threatened food crops
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News Research institutes launch innovative collaboration to combat crop disease
An ambitious collaboration between the John Innes Centre and the University of Hertfordshire will fast track urgently needed solutions to the growing problem of crop diseases
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