All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Hostile fungus found to protect against cereal diseases Hostile fungus found to protect against cereal diseases 08/09/2020 | 3 MINS A fungus that devastates many crops can act as a powerful biocontrol agent against fungal diseases in cereal plants when modified by mycovirus infection, according to research by Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture and Huazhong Agricultural University in China. The world-first findings, published in The ISME Journal, show that ΓÇô when infected by a ΓÇÿmycovirusΓÇÖ (a virus that infects a fungus) ΓÇô the fungus Sclerotinia was debilitated and therefore no longer a threat to crops. The mycovirus-debilitated Sclerotinia readily grew as a beneficial ΓÇÿendophyteΓÇÖ (harmless fungus) within plants of diverse cereal crops including wheat, rice, barley and maize. "This discovery is the silver bullet we have all been looking for." Professor Martin Barbetti The study, led by Huazhong Agricultural University Professor Dahong Jiang, found that the beneficial endophyte effectively protected
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September Hostile fungus found to protect against cereal diseases Hostile fungus found to protect against cereal diseases 08/09/2020 | 3 MINS A fungus that devastates many crops can act as a powerful biocontrol agent against fungal diseases in cereal plants when modified by mycovirus infection, according to research by Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture and Huazhong Agricultural University in China.
The world-first findings, published in The ISME Journal, show that ΓÇô when infected by a ΓÇÿmycovirusΓÇÖ (a virus that infects a fungus) ΓÇô the fungus Sclerotinia was debilitated and therefore no longer a threat to crops.
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The mycovirus-debilitated Sclerotinia readily grew as a beneficial ΓÇÿendophyteΓÇÖ (harmless fungus) within plants of diverse cereal crops including wheat, rice, barley and maize.
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"This discovery is the silver bullet we have all been looking for." Professor Martin Barbetti The study, led by Huazhong Agricultural University Professor Dahong Jiang, found that the beneficial endophyte effectively protected
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