The plant immune system, which differs significantly from that of humans, utilises small RNA sequences to deactivate or ...

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“The study is a proof of concept that CRISPR/Cas9 can be used to destroy DNA viruses and block viral infection and disease progression,” said Yinong Yang, who studies molecular plant-microbe ...

Plant viral diseases are a global and growing problem. Potyviruses are the largest genus of RNA viruses in plants. We are interested in molecular elucidation of the different stages of potyvirus ...

German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

The symptoms of rose black spot and the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) are shown below. dig up and destroy infected plants wash their hands after handling infected plants wash tools that have come ...

In agriculture, virus diseases have traditionally been controlled ... (aphids, whiteflies, plant hoppers, etc. With the advent of gene transfer technologies, genes for disease resistance have ...

A recent study conducted on human A(H5N1) cases in the United States found that conjunctivitis was the primary symptom ...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered how a viral infection causes autoimmune disease, disproving a long-standing theory and opening a promising new approach to ...

Veganuary offers another reason to go plant-based: it could save the NHS £6.7 billion annually by reducing chronic diseases ...

which both escalate the spread of infectious disease. "In nature, plants are constantly being attacked and require a well-functioning immune system," says Professor Joseph Ecker, senior author of ...