Reading Time: < 1 minute Scientists may be able to find new ways to tackle plant diseases after discovering how a fungus attacks barley. In a study in the journalScience,researchers from Imperial College London said they had decoded the gene map of Blumeria, a fungus that causes powdery mildew on barley. They found that “parasitic DNA” within the genetic makeup […] Read more
Gene Map Offers Hope Against Powdery Mildew
Editors’ Picks: These GM chickens don’t spread bird flu
(Reuters) –– British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections — a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly epidemics in humans. Scientists from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities said that while the transgenic chickens still got sick and died when they […] Read more
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