{"id":2110,"date":"2010-11-18T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:50:24","slug":"new-process-breeds-resistance-to-potato-tomato-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"New Process Breeds Resistance to Potato, Tomato Blight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1066\" title=\"Potatoes_ARS\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg\" alt=\"Potatoes (Agricultural Research Service, USDA)\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Agricultural Research Service, USDA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a process that offers an alternative to combating resistance to late blight, a disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry \u00a35 to \u00a36 billion ($8.0 to $9.6 billion) a year worldwide. <a href=\"http:\/\/vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu\/factsheets\/Potato_LateBlt.htm\">Late blight<\/a> of potatoes and tomatoes is caused by the fungus-like pathogen <em>Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans)<\/em>, and was responsible for the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Birch of the University of Dundee and his team at the Scottish Crop Research Institute used a genetic analysis to identify plants for breeding that are inherently resistant to late blight infection. When introduced into cultivated varieties, says Birch, such disease resistance should be far more durable.<\/p>\n<p>The team studied interactions between <em>P. infestans<\/em> and potato plants, which helped identify proteins secreted by the invading pathogen and are essential for infection. This led to a better understanding of how <em>P.infestans<\/em> gets around the potato plant&#8217;s natural defenses and thus what it takes for the plant to resist infection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can actually look at a potato plant&#8217;s genetic makeup and say whether it will be sustainably resistant to late blight,&#8221; says Birch, &#8220;which is a huge step forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by the Crop Science Initiative of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbsrc.ac.uk\/news\/food-security\/2010\/101118-pr-defeating-potato-blight.aspx\">Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a process that offers an alternative to combating resistance to late blight, a disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry \u00a35 to \u00a36 billion ($8.0 to $9.6 billion) a year worldwide. Late blight of potatoes and tomatoes is caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans), and was responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92,45,55,64,26],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-agriculture","tag-europe","tag-genomics","tag-life-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}