Asian soybean rust has a devastating impact on soybean, an internationally important crop with 346 million tonnes produced globally. Now its complex genome has been assembled providing an opportunity for new types of control.
Would working with nature relieve some of the evolutionary pressure on arable weeds and plant pests and stop them from becoming so aggressive?
An unexpected ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has classified a promising gene editing technique as genetic modification and it
A new technology called ‘MutRenSeq’ accurately pinpoints the location of disease resistance genes in large plant genomes, it has reduced the time it takes to clone
Some plants can protect themselves from attack by disease by setting molecular traps. Once the disease has been detected it is lured by a ‘bait’ and then
An enzyme called DNA gyrase has been found to play an essential role in the formation of chloroplasts in plants. Chloroplasts play a vital role in
Samples taken 160 years ago are offering new insights into the modern problem of fungicide resistance. Just as antibiotic resistance by disease-causing bacteria poses a huge