​​​Emerging Research

Environmentally Friendly Method Shows Promise in Control of Late Blight

"We showed, for the first time, that spray-induced gene silencing can control late blight," said Ramesh Vetukuri, a plant pathologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. "Our study is ​also the first to indicate that Phytophthora infestans sporangia can take up dsRNA from the surroundings and that it efficiently​ suppresses the expression of target genes."