Wednesday 8 June 2022

Breakthrough gene discovery could help prevent disease affecting 10% of world’s crops

Breakthrough gene discovery could help prevent disease affecting 10% of world’s crops

A son of Vietnamese farmers who made a breakthrough as a scholarship student in Australia has released a scientific finding which could help protect a tenth of crops worldwide from disease. Dr Hoan Dinh, AusAID scholar and PhD student at the University of Sydney, found and defined the sequence of a gene responsible for leaf rust resistance in barley.

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