Gene-silencing spray to combat cereal disease is safe for the environment, finds study

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Jan 9, 2025, 12:21 pm119 pts
Great hopes are placed on a new way to combat plant diseases, using RNA to turn off genes that the pathogen needs to initiate the attack. Now, researchers from SLU and the James Hutton Institute have for the first time investigated how spray-induced gene silencing affects other microorganisms.

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