Integrating large-scale data and RNA technology to protect crops from fungal pathogens

With a rapidly growing human population it is expected that plant science researchers and the agricultural community will need to increase food productivity using less arable land. This challenge is complicated by fungal pathogens and diseases, many of which can severely impact crop yield. Current m...

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Main Authors: Ian Joseph Girard, Austein Garth Mcloughlin, Teresa Rebecca de Kievit, DILANTHA WG FERNANDO, Mark Findlay Belmonte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00631/full