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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Press Release Landmark field trials show potential of gene-editing
Field trials investigating healthy compounds in agronomically important brassica crops have underlined the “immense potential” of gene editing technology, say researchers
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Blog Rapidly diagnosing plant diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa; Introducing James Canham
James Canham is a PhD student who used his PiPs placement at Pwani University in Kenya to establish a new research consortium, the success of which has helped earn him a UEA Engagement Award
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Press Release Virus infection cycle revealed in dynamic detail
A critical process in the infection cycle of viruses has been revealed for the first time in dynamic detail using pioneering plant-based technology
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