President’s Blog: lifestyles – understanding how some microbes can benefit and others harm plants.

Beskrivelse

Not all biotechnology is about genetic engineering or gene editing. In the broad sense, biological control is also biotechnology: using biological processes for a technological purpose, i.e., to control diseases. I will explore what we know about the biology of a group of organisms that can be used to control disease, namely endophytes.

Emne

Endophytes, lifestyle, biological control of plant disease