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Tag Archives: disease resistance
GMO breakthroughs and fakethroughs
It can be difficult to know who to believe about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The scientific peer review system is no guarantee of truth, nor are the news media, nor are blogs like this one. Jonathan Latham of the US-based … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer
Tagged academia, bacterial rice leaf blight, bacterium, banana, biofortification, biotechnology, cassava, development, disease resistance, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, International Rice Research Institute, knowledge, Monsanto, nutrition, oral vaccination, pathogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, research, rice, staple food, sustainable, sweet potato, tuber, vaccine, virus
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Cattle which resist a devastating disease
People in tropical countries fear diseases called sleeping sickness, and other names, caused by tiny parasites called trypanosomes (Trypanosoma spp.) also known as tryps. Now there’s new science suggesting a way to reduce Animal African Trypanosomiasis in cattle (Bos primigenius) … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, arthropod, Asia, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, breeding, cattle, development, dipteran, disease, disease resistance, farmer, insect, invertebrate, livestock, livestock breed, local breed, mammal, meat, parasite, pastoral, protozoan, research, ruminant, selective breeding, sleeping sickness, tropical disease, trypanosome, tsetse, vector, vertebrate
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Irradiated seeds combat world’s most serious wheat disease
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a staple food in many parts of the world. You can follow my ‘wheat’ tag for more about this crop. Now there are two new varieties to resist a devastating wheat disease. If you’re growing wheat, … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, disease, disease resistance, emerging disease, evolution, farmer, food, fungus, genetic modification, grain, local variety, mutagenesis, mutation breeding, pathogen, plant_monocot, poverty, research, selective breeding, staple food, trade, Twitter, wheat
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Sickle Cell Disease
argylesock says… Here’s a graphic image of what goes wrong when a person has sickle cell anaemia. It’s caused by a recessive allele, meaning that if you’re heterozygous you’re a carrier. You don’t get the disease but if you have … Continue reading
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Tagged art, disease, disease resistance, genetic disease, human, malaria, neglected disease, research, tropical disease
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Resistance to ash dieback?
It’s clear by now that our ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) are under serious attack by the ash dieback fungus (Chalara fraxinea). Is this tree, one of the most common in Britain, going to be wiped out? Leo Hickman at the … Continue reading
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