Fungus attacks new type of grain thanks to an evolutionary trick
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 07:12
in Biology & Nature
For the past few years, mildew has been able to infect triticale grain, which up to then had been resistant to this fungal disease. So how was the pathogen able to spread to a different host plant? Researchers from the University of Zurich have shown that the new pathogen is a genetic mix of existing mildew forms.