Viral alliances overcoming plant defenses
Washington State University researchers have found that viruses will join forces to overcome a plant's defenses and cause more severe infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 16, 2012
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News tagged with pathology
Modern DNA techniques applied to nineteenth-century potatoes
Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century potatoes to show how the potato blight may have survived between cropping seasons ...
Biotechnology
Sep 19, 2012
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UW scientists probe, attack late blight in potatoes
(Phys.org)—As the annual potato harvest begins, Wisconsin farmers continue to check their fields for late blight, the ferocious plant disease that caused the 1848 Irish potato famine and fueled massive emigration from Ireland.
Biotechnology
Sep 3, 2012
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Research examines virus infection's differing effects on plants, insects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato spotted wilt virus can be deadly for many important plants, but have little effect on the plants' small insect hosts. Research by a Kansas State University plant pathologist and two students is examining ...
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2012
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Strep-resistant fire blight found in New York orchards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell plant pathologists have issued a warning to New York apple and pear growers after discovering a strain of fire blight that is resistant to such traditional treatments as the antibiotic streptomycin.
Ecology
Jan 9, 2012
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ISU scientist helps find structure of gene-editing protein named Method of the Year
In the two and a half years since Adam Bogdanove, professor at Iowa State University in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, along with Matthew Moscou, a former graduate student in that department, discovered ...
Biotechnology
Jan 5, 2012
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The machinery of chromatin regulation
Ten years after the human genome was first published, researchers have found new clues into the machinery that influences gene function. The team, led by Bradley Bernstein, an associate professor of pathology at Massachusetts ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 23, 2011
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Worm compost can suppress plant disease, regulate nutrients, research finds
Organic growers could soon have another weapon in their arsenal, courtesy of the humble worm.
Ecology
Dec 22, 2011
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Compound in Apples Inhibits E. coli O157:H7
A compound that is abundant in apples and strawberries inhibits the highly pathogenic E. coli O157:H7 biofilms while sparing a beneficial strain of E. coli that also forms biofilms in the human gut, according to a paper in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2011
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Researchers learn how pathogen causes speck disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered how the structure of a protein allows a certain bacteria to interfere with the tomato plant's immune system, causing bacterial speck disease.
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2011
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