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From lab to land: Crop modifications are fortifying our food supply against climate change

  • 1.  From lab to land: Crop modifications are fortifying our food supply against climate change

    Posted 26 days ago

    As part of a new ASBMB Today series on food science, ASBMB science writer Marissa Locke Rottinghaus reported on how scientists are exploring genetic and biochemical innovations fueling future-proofing agriculture. Read on to find out how Kranthi Mandadi, a professor of plant pathology and microbiology at Texas A&M is combatting citrus greening with BMB: https://ow.ly/B0MB50U6Cpx.

    Pictured below: Mandadi developed the citrus hairy root system to speed the screening of various antimicrobials against the bacterium that causes citrus greening. 

    Kranthi Mandadi developed the citrus hairy root system to speed the screening of various antimicrobials against the bacterium that causes citrus greening.



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    Allison Frick
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