Study a step toward disease-resistant crops, sustainability

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

A five-year study that could help increase disease resistance, stress tolerance and plant yields is under way at Purdue University. The $4 million project uses a new technique called 'mutant-assisted gene identification and characterisation,' or MAGIC, to identify potentially useful gene combinations in crop species...

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