Can chickpea genes save mustard seeds from blight disease?
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 15:40
in Biology & Nature
During visits to fields in Assam, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, plant biologists Muthappa Senthil-Kumar and Urooj Fatima found mustard plants infested with Alternaria blight disease. They also noticed that an adjacent field of chickpeas were completely uninfected.