Breakthrough gene discovery could help prevent disease affecting 10% of world’s crops
by Natasha May from Environment | The Guardian on (#603C0)
University of Sydney's Dr Hoan Dinh finds gene which makes barley resistant to fungal rust, a disease that decreases global food production by a tenth
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A son of Vietnamese farmers who is now a scholarship student in Australia has made a breakthrough 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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