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2009-08-18 | permalink
Genomics provides clues to sustainable potato protection
Professor Birch is collaborating with colleagues at SCRI, Warwick HRI and the University of Aberdeen in BBSRC-funded projects to address the problems faced by existing control measures, which currently rely on aggressive prophylactic chemical treatments. They are looking to understand how P. infestans causes disease and to identify essential pathogen virulence genes that may be durable targets for host disease resistance proteins.
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2009-08-18 | permalink
Genomics provides clues to sustainable potato protection
Professor Birch is collaborating with colleagues at SCRI, Warwick HRI and the University of Aberdeen in BBSRC-funded projects to address the problems faced by existing control measures, which currently rely on aggressive prophylactic chemical treatments. They are looking to understand how P. infestans causes disease and to identify essential pathogen virulence genes that may be durable targets for host disease resistance proteins.
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