Bacterial DNA isolated from a 120-year-old preserved plant cutting helped reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in ...

By: Sarah E. Bowden (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) & John M. Drake (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia) © 2013 Nature Education Depending ...

Aerosols play a critical role in the transmission of airborne pathogens by acting as carriers that transport pathogens ...

For example, damage to leaves might be caused by a pathogen or grazing animals. The scientists will try to identify any environmental causes such as pollution that might be affecting the plants.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...